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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation the Piano Last night, Brother, my friend, Brother.

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Speaker 2: I've had more response to this show than any TV

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Speaker 2: I've done, I think, and it's such a beautiful show.

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Speaker 2: A friend of mine said, it's love, hope, grief all

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Speaker 2: set to music, and it really is. This is what

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Speaker 2: I often says, you scratch the surface. Everybody has a

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Speaker 2: story on this show if you haven't seen it. People

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Speaker 2: come down who just love the piano to play a

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Speaker 2: public piano for the love of the piano.

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Speaker 1: People just don't come down randomly.

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Speaker 2: No, the word went out, you know, people said, We said,

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Speaker 2: we're making a documentary about people's love of the piano.

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Speaker 2: People applied and then we selected people to come down

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Speaker 2: in various locations. Last nights was at Preston Markets in Melbourne.

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Speaker 2: So people are selling fruit and vege all around us.

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Speaker 2: And what they don't know the people who come to

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Speaker 2: play the piano is that Harry Connick Junior and Andrea Lamb,

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Speaker 2: who's Australia's greatest classical pianist, are watching on just from

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Speaker 2: a nearby room, and they select their favorite performer, not

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Speaker 2: necessarily the best, their favorite who's going to perform in

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Speaker 2: a concert at the end. Yet last night we met Stefania.

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Speaker 2: She's twelve years old. She's been looting the piano since

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Speaker 2: she was five. She wants to be a cardiologist when

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Speaker 2: she's older. And Brendan she happened to like my partners.

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Speaker 2: My name is Stefanie Daphanier. Come and join me here.

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Speaker 2: You look fabulous. Thank you. I feel a little off

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Speaker 2: key in comparison so of a good pun. Thank Finally

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Speaker 2: someone appreciates my puns. Thank you, I got the veiled

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Speaker 2: de stab at you I got well. I've had so

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Speaker 2: many comments about Michelle, who was on the show last night.

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Speaker 2: Michelle is in her sixties and she's been facing She's

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Speaker 2: got a lot of problems. She is blind and she

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Speaker 2: is deaf.

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Speaker 1: Growing up, I had only very little vision. It wasn't

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Speaker 1: until about three years ago that I had to have

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Speaker 1: my eye removed. So due to chronic ear infections and

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Speaker 1: cancer in my ears, I lost my hearing about twenty

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Speaker 1: years ago. I could have either gave up and said

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Speaker 1: poor me, poor me, I can't do anything. However, I'm

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Speaker 1: not here to sit in a cupboard and feel sorry

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Speaker 1: for myself. That's for sure. I'm one of the very

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Speaker 1: few dafline pianists in the world.

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Speaker 2: Wow, she's amazing. And I spoke to her through an

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Speaker 2: interpreter who really type, not they types out uses her

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Speaker 2: hands to tell her what I'm saying, makes the shapes

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Speaker 2: of the woods in Michelle's hands as I'm talking, and

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Speaker 2: then someone stands behind her and touches her back to

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Speaker 2: tell her what the environment is. And one of the

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Speaker 2: defining images for me at the very end of that

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Speaker 2: was the person standing behind her looking like making rain

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Speaker 2: motions on Michelle's back to say, people are applauding you.

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Speaker 2: It was incredible. She wrote a song about her first

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Speaker 2: guide dog, Alan.

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Speaker 1: Still missed the guy very very much.

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Speaker 2: Do you think about Alan when you play this song.

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Speaker 1: All the time, all the time when they you hear

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Speaker 1: my performance. I really hope that people sort of think,

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Speaker 1: you know, a disability is not a disability unless you

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Speaker 1: allow it to be. And that's something I really strongly

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Speaker 1: believe in.

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Speaker 2: Wise words, and have you listen to how powerful the

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Speaker 2: song is. Oh, that's Harry responding to it.

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Speaker 1: It was so moving.

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Speaker 2: But how does she do it? How does she do?

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Speaker 1: What does she do?

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Speaker 2: How does she do it?

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Speaker 1: I can get my knuckle on.

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Speaker 2: That's beautiful, so inspiring, So the piano. You can watch

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Speaker 2: it on ABC on Sunday nights, or all the episodes

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Speaker 2: are there to watch on ABC.

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Speaker 1: I view and I appreciate your pans.

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Speaker 2: Shall you do