"I'm fine. Music? Yes, I've heard it."
He was serene, he even hinted at a smile, and now the 10-year-old boy who was operated on today at the Salesi hospital in Ancona is in pediatric resuscitation, to the notes of a grand piano, tuned at 432 hertz.
An innovative intervention, planned for the removal of a double tumor of the spinal cord, performed by the neurosurgical Roberto Trignani, head of the Neurosurgery department of the Ospedali Riuniti of Ancona.
With him a multidisciplinary team of 15 people.
While the surgeon was working, in the same room playing the piano Emiliano Toso, molecular biologist and composer musician.
"The operation lasted four hours - explains Trignani - everything went well, there were no complications. A magical atmosphere of complete harmony was brought to the operating room".
It is the first time in the world that a piano has entered an operating room.
The child was operated on under total anesthesia but "from the encephalogram we saw that it was as if the music was also perceived by him, because when the notes were interrupted the path changed".
In three days at the latest, the baby will be able to stand upright.
The tumor mass was completely excised.
"Then we will have to wait for the due time - says Trignani - to see if the tumor has stopped completely".