Arts & Entertainment

Mystery of the Malibu Mountaintop Piano Solved

Hundreds have hiked up the Santa Monica Mountains to marvel at a lonely piano since it was discovered by a news chopper this week.

How many people does it take to haul a 300 pound piano to the top of a mountain?

Six gym rats.

That’s according to singer Rachel Wong, who solved the mystery of the paino left atop the Santa Monica Mountains in Malibu.

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“It was six very, very gym ratty boys,” Wong told Inside Edition, solving the mystery of how and why a piano was left on a lonely mountain top. According to the entertainment news magazine, Wong had the piano lugged up the mountain to film a music video. It only took the six men, 45 minutes to hike it uphill.

Since a Fox 11 News helicopter spotted the piano earlier this week, hundreds have hiked to the mountaintop to see the unusual site.

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“We were silently laughing at everybody’s responses on how it go there and why,” Wong explained on Inside Edition. “They were talking about a helicopter pad and how they must had dropped it there with like an expensive crane. We were like, ‘Nope, it was six very, very gym ratty boys.”

Photo Credit: Fox 11 News screengrab



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