The Wai Wai are a tribe (部落) of about 250 people who live in the Amazon jungle (亚马逊丛林). This tribe has had little contact with the modern world. In fact, their nearest neighbors, another tribe of native people, live so far away that it takes three weeks to travel between the villages on foot. One of the few Western people to have visited the Wai Wai is Blashford-Snell. In March 2002, he speift two months visiting the tribe and offering them some help.
On the last day of his visit, the village priest (牧师) asked Blashford-Snell a favor. He wanted a grand piano to put in the village church.
"Do you have any idea what a grand piano looks like?" asked Blashford-Snell.
The priest said he had seen pictures of one in a book. Blashford-Snell didn't think he'd ever be able to play the piano but the priest said, "We are musical people." Then he said, "God (上帝) moves in mysterious ways."
Back in England, Blashford-Snell was offered a 360-kilogram grand piano as a gift from the Millennium Gloucester Hotel London. Blashford-Snell and his team flew the piano as far as they could into the jungle by helicopter. But getting the piano from the landing site to the village was no easy job. With the help of a few people from the tribe, they put the piano in a sledge(雪橇)and pulled the sledge by ropes several miles through the jungle to a river. Then they loaded the piano into a boat and started up the river. Finally, they arrived at the foot of the mountain where the tribe lives. With help from more tribe members, they were able to climb to the top of the mountain carrying the piano. The piano had arrived at its new home in the Amazon!
Six months later, Blashford-Snell traveled back to visit the tribe. He helped the Wai Wai record a CD to raise money for the tribe. The CD included a variety of songs and music of the Wai Wai, and the Beatles classic "With a Little Help from My Friends" played by the Wai Wai with the piano!