Chapel pianist (lone chapel) · Big island, High Ridge chapel on the north ridge near Dungeon_3 (Chopin Prelude Op. 28 No. 7).
Talk
- “Name's Maude. I play the piano up here. It's a prelude. Chopin. Forty seconds long. People climb all morning to hear it. They get here right at the end. Every time.”
- “Folks ask how the piano got up the mountain. I tell them the chapel was built around it. Then they ask how the piano got up before the chapel. So I play it again. That's my answer.”
- “There's a wizard down the ridge. Merrick. He waves sometimes. I wave back. We've never talked. I don't want to know what he does. And he doesn't want to hear this song again.”
- “You can see the whole island from the door. The town, the lake, the crypts. On a clear day you can see the next island. On a foggy day you can see the door.”
- “Chopin wrote twenty-four of these. One for every key. Mine's in A major. That's the nice one. I asked for it. You don't climb a mountain to be sad. You can do that at home.”
- “My doctor said, Maude, you need fresh air and exercise. So I play the piano on a mountain. The air's fresh. And the walk up is the exercise. I've done it once.”
When you walk off mid-sentence
- “That's alright. It was almost over anyway. It's always almost over.”
- “Go on. Mind the edge on the way down. It doesn't mind you.”
- “Leaving already? The song's forty seconds long. You couldn't give me forty seconds?”