A restaurant worker delivered a lot more than a pizza to a Michigan family when he sat down at their baby grand piano and played a flawless rendition of a Beethoven masterpiece. Julie Varchetti said her husband, Paul, had ordered their kids a pizza from Hungry Howie's in Shelby Township. When the delivery guy, 18-year-old Bryce Dudal, spotted their piano in the foyer of their home and asked if he could take a look at it. Paul invited the recent high school graduate inside and asked him if he played. Dual responded that he did and took a seat on the piano bench. The teen then began to play the third movement of Beethoven's 'Moonlight' sonata. Blown away, Paul pulled out his phone and started recording as Dudal's fingers flew across the keys. Julie, who was not home at the time, shared the video on her Facebook page where it quickly went viral. It currently has more than 605,000 views. 'He was just beyond good,' Julie told the Washington Post. Dual said he is mostly self-taught and memorized 'Moonlight' when he was around six or seven years old. He told the outlet that he would spend hours listening to the piece and then trying to recreate it himself on a keyboard his parents bought him. 'It was a long process,' he said. 'You have to sit there and think and try to put it on the piano, piece by piece. I couldn't read music back then. I would sit there and listen for hours and hours and try to figure it out'. Dual said when he was about 12 his parents found him a music teacher who helped him perfect the Beethoven piece and taught him to read music.
'It's a flashy, fast, amazing piece,' he told the Post. 'A lot of people sit down at the piano and play something slow and beautiful. But when I play for someone, I like to go all out.' Dual said most of his customers have no idea he has such a wonderful gift. 'All they see is a pizza delivery guy,' he said. Dual said he stopped playing the piano about a year ago to focus on baseball. The teen got a baseball scholarship to Macomb Community College. He said sports have taken up much of his time, but his newfound fame has sparked a renewed interest in music.
