Man visits 'Titanic' museum, sees a piano. You know what happens next, and it's great.
Romantic bonus points: It was his honeymoon.
A vintage piano at the Titanic Museum.
Musician Edwin Rivera from Jacksonville, Florida, was celebrating his honeymoon with his wife and as part of the trip, they visited the Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. The museum showcases over 400 pieces of memorabilia from the Titanic and features a breathtaking recreation of the ship’s grand staircase. It also features a large replica of the doomed vessel striking an iceberg.
Rivera’s wife turned her camera on to catch his reaction as he walked into the music room and saw an 118-year-old piano. She thought he would just twinkle the keys a bit, but he went much further than that. "The video was initially supposed to be Edwin's raw reaction to touching the replica piano," Staci McClure, a friend of the couple who posted the video, told Newsweek. "When he pressed the keys and it was tuned, he spontaneously decided to play. And what else to play other than ‘The Portrait’ from Titanic?"
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The video is impressive because he plays the beautiful piece without sheet music. A crowd of strangers at the museum was also impressed with his playing, breaking into applause at the end. “I had to do it, I had to do it,” the pianist said, with a twinge of bashfulness in his voice as he left the bench. The couple gave the video to McClure because she has over 4,000 followers on TikTok, and they thought it might help the musician book a few gigs. “Little did we know that 48 hours later it would have nearly 8 million views,” McClure told Newsweek.
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The video impressed a lot of folks on TikTok in the comments. “Omg, can you imagine being surrounded by those artifacts and hearing that? They'd have to take me out on a stretcher for uncontrolled sobbing,” one wrote. “The fact he remembered that song from memory without the sheet music, is pretty damn cool,” another added.
A replica of the Titanic hitting an iceberg in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.via Titanic Museum/Media Page
The post also brought out a couple of jokesters. “I would've laid across the piano and told him to draw me like one of his French girls,” someone joked. "Should’ve followed it up with under the sea,” another commenter added. In a follow-up video, Rivera did just that.
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“The Portrait” was initially written by composer James Horner to score the scene where Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) sketches Rose (Kate Winslet) wearing The Heart of the Ocean necklace. However, in the final film, a piano demo called “Sketch” by Horner was used for the scene instead due to a mix-up over the word “sketch.” However, “The Portrait” would later appear in “Back to Titanic” and the 20th anniversary soundtrack.
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The Titanic Museum Attraction in Tennessee is an interactive exhibit that allows people to get close to genuine artifacts from the Titanic and get to know its passengers and crew members as well. Upon entering the attraction, everyone is given the name of a real passenger on the boat, and by the end of the tour, they know whether they lived or perished in the icy waters where it sank. It puts a real human face to a tragedy that has become such a big part of American maritime history.
A replica of the Titanic's Grand Staircase.via Titanic Museum/Media Page
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