The Piano Beneath the Lake

Oliver spends his summer days swimming in the clear lake near his village. One sunny morning, a soft, tinkling piano melody drifts up from deep underwater, and his curiosity leads him to dive down with his red goggles. At the lake bottom he finds a grand piano inside a shimmering dome, its keys moving by themselves to play a lonely tune.

There he meets Pip, a small mint-green water creature with amber eyes and fins at her ears, who leads him to her family and the heart of the lake's mystery. Pip introduces him to Marina, a graceful water spirit in a kelp dress, and to Grandfather Tide, the old keeper of the piano. They explain that the keys are jammed with slime and tiny shells, and that the mechanism has fallen silent. Although Oliver has never repaired a piano before, he is good at puzzles, and he asks for a soft brush to begin. This gentle tale by Yavuz DEMİRKIRAN can be read on Online Masal.