Teen explains origins of mystery piano

The mystery surrounding a piano that appeared in a sand Biscayne Bay has apparently come to a conclusion grandiose: He has been the work of a teenager with a little help from his friends.

"I liked the idea of a piano anonymous there, no explanation for it," Nicholas Harrington, 16, told CNN affiliate WPLG, adding that he considered art.

Harrington told the station, home video before the holidays, when he and his father moved the grand piano in his grandmother's house for her, the boat.

A few weeks later, after deliberately placing the piano on fire during a party he, his father and two of his friends decided to put it on the sandbank, WPLG reported. "It was a solid surface. It would not float in the air, "said Harrington of the station.

Interscholastic Sailing Association website lists Harrington sailing as captain of his high school, MAST Academy.

Harrington said he has decided to present when someone else took responsibility for placing the sandbar piano. William Yeager said he was a director with the trilogy "controversial" movie will come out and that she and her filmmaker husband have put the piano in different cities.

Miami Herald reports Yeager is a "known prankster" who "years, painted himself black and convinced many in the media that he was the long lost son of Jimi Hendrix."

It is not clear whether the authorities in the region take action. It is illegal to throw things in the waters of Biscayne Bay, Jorge Pino of Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission told CNN on Wednesday. "If you are caught doing so, you can be arrested."

Department of Environmental Resources Management to act in such a situation. Luis Espinoza spokesman told CNN Thursday morning, the department had no comment on what might happen.

Stack in turn, told CNN on Thursday that his agency "would be highly unlikely that anything will mention this young man." Agency "will probably write a warning and ensure that they understand that this can be interpreted as littering, apparently.'s Not fair."

Pino added: "It is in their interest to run the same boat when he went there before and load the damn thing on his boat and bring it to his garage."

"The boy seems to be just an" artist, "said Pino." An art of human trash is another man. "

The piano has attracted worldwide attention, with its peg in the sand quickly be described as "piano-bar."

The authorities told CNN Wednesday they do not intend to remove it. "What will probably happen is that the piano while disintegrate because of salt water and salty air, Pino said, adding that it will not harm wildlife.

The conclusion has struck a chord with residents and tourists, inspiring some to board their boats and check it out. But those who expected to perform a concert they were in the deception. "This piano is so badly beaten they can not even hit any airs about him," says André Hepkins CNN affiliate WSVN, while he was in the sand to try to tickle the ivories.

Blogs had a field day. A Miami New Times site is offered explanations such as "The Little Mermaid is a work of fiction" and the "powers that be trying new tricks to get your attention on the end of the world."

Pino had his own ideas. "The person who did this obviously did it as a joke in my opinion, said Wednesday," and get exactly what I wanted, which is the realization that viral history. "

WPLG Harrington said that about 100 people attended the celebration of New Year's Eve at home '. Using sparklers, he, along with friends and family, set a floor on fire, "he said." It 's a great aspect. We took some great pictures of it, "Harrington said, adding that he sought to" build a portfolio of my art. "

He said the second of January, he, his father and two of his friends brought the piano to the sandbar.

He had no plan, but after Yeager's argument that responsibility, he decided. "It's not fair," said Harrington WPLG. "But what people are doing the advertising, who knows."

Biscayne Bay is home to commerce and tourism. The National Park Service describes it as "a shallow estuary, a place where fresh water from land mixes with salt water and abundant marine life. There is a creche in children and live marine life."

"It 's amazing that someone would go through the trouble" pull "650 pounds of equipment" to date, Pino said Wednesday.

But the piano is just the first item on the waters of the litter. "There are strange things in the water all the time - shopping carts and tires and all kinds of things people simply decide to throw out there," said Pino.

"We know a car ... a few years ago dumped in the water and the vehicle was there. And as it turns out that the vehicle is quite a habitat for lobster now. "