About 900 pounds of piano worth $11,000 made its way down into the Longhorn Cavern State Park near Marble Falls.
"This is a Mason Hamlin Double B which is about a 7-foot grand piano," The Piano Wrangler Gordan Crail said. "We've taken a piano just like this and put it on its keys to make a tight turn in a stairway"
The big move is all for a special performance in the underground cave.
"We are having a simple sounds concert here at Longhorn Caverns featuring jazz pianist Joseph Cordi," Steven Kurtz, with Longhorn Cavern State Park, said. "We realized that this room was shaped kind of like a megaphone so no matter what angle you were at, your voice or your instrument was amplified and the resonance and the acoustics were superior."
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Cavern Concert
News 8's Paul Brown has more on a performance that needed no technical amplification.
 
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Although the caverns have hosted many musicians in the past, the event is Cordi's first CD release party. The new album is titled "When the Piano Man Sings the Blues".
"I've been playing since I was a little kid," Austin jazz pianist Joseph Cordi said. "But I do come from a musical family. My grandmother was a piano teacher and my mom played the piano.
"I'd like to thank Frank Baxter of Granger Pianos. This was his idea of moving this down here," Cordi said to the audience.
While his fans loved the atmosphere, Cordi is still getting used to his celebrity.
