A traveling musician pushed a piano up a mountain: why did he do it?

> Calvin Smith played the piano on the mountain/Frame from the video

Australian musician Calvin Smith is known for who plays the piano in strange places. He named his project “Piano Tasmania”, which he founded five years ago.

Smith will be taking his piano all over Tasmania, to the most scenic and unusual places. If necessary, he will even take it there and back by helicopter, writes The Drive.

Smith played his Albert Fahr piano at the top of Mount Wellington over the weekend. But this time he didn't use a helicopter to get there – he pushed it.

Smith pushed his piano to the top of Mount Wellington during a half-marathon climb to raise awareness about mental health and suicide prevention.

“It's a vivid metaphor, we're all pushing something up a mountain,” Smith told ABC News Australia. “Why not make this into a piano so we can play it at the summit?”

It's a 21-kilometer climb from Hobart to the summit of Mount Wellington, at 1,272 meters, making it one of the toughest half marathons on the planet. And Smith didn't just have to walk or run, he had to push a 195-kilogram piano to the top. He started a day earlier than the other half marathoners and set himself a goal of finishing in 21 hours, ahead of the first runner. He did just that, beating them by four minutes.

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Listen to him play the piano: watch the video

Obviously you can't just push a piano up a hill without at least a little modification. It is not the most mobile of tools. So Smith mounted his Albert Fahr on a pretty cool cart.

In an interview with Australia's Drive, he showed off a custom-made 4mm aluminum cart designed and built by Australian industrial manufacturer Richmond Rolling Solutions. Its 10-inch rubber tires are equipped with anti-roll brakes to keep the cart from rolling down the slope.

Smith has been preparing for the half-marathon piano climb by pushing the piano for six months. During this time, he trained by pushing a brick-laden piano, which was almost 100 kilograms heavier than his Albert Fahr, up an equivalent mountain road 10 times. Fortunately, all the hard work paid off, his plan went off without a hitch, and he played his piano at the top for everyone in attendance.