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members of a music video crew pose at Topanga Lookout in the Santa Monica Mountains with an upright piano they hauled up there in Calabasas, Calif.

Members of a music video crew pose at Topanga Lookout in the Santa Monica Mountains with an upright piano they hauled up there in Calabasas, Calif. Image by Press Association

For days, the Southern California hilltop was alive with the sound of mystery when hikers found a battered upright piano sitting on a graffiti-scrawled concrete slab.

But the scene at Topanga Lookout in the Santa Monica Mountains, between Calabasas and the Pacific Ocean, has turned out to be the setting for a music video by Seattle-based artist Rachel Wong.

Members of a music video haul an upright piano to Topanga Lookout in the Santa Monica Mountains in Calabasas, Calif.

Members of a music video haul an upright piano to Topanga Lookout in the Santa Monica Mountains in Calabasas, Calif. Image by Press Association

The cinematographer, Michael Flotron, said he and four others used a dolly and rope to haul the 350lb instrument a mile up the trail on Tuesday.

a person sits at an upright piano that had been hauled up to Topanga Lookout in the Santa Monica Mountains in Calabasas, Calif. For a couple of days this week, a Southern California hilltop was alive with the sound of mystery. Hikers venturing to Topanga Lookout found a battered upright piano sitting on a graffiti-scrawled concrete slab with a panoramic view over the mountains between Calabasas and the Pacific Ocean.

a person sits at an upright piano that had been hauled up to Topanga Lookout in the Santa Monica Mountains in Calabasas, Calif. For a couple of days this week, a Southern California hilltop was alive with the sound of mystery. Hikers venturing to Topanga Lookout found a battered upright piano sitting on a graffiti-scrawled concrete slab with a panoramic view over the mountains between Calabasas and the Pacific Ocean. Image by Press Association

But after the shoot, it was too dark to get the piano back down.

Mr Flotron says people seem happy to leave it there, but if necessary he will haul the piano back down.

(Press Association)