"Don't you think there's something more to life than this?"

Cenote grows weary of his parents forcing him to learn to play the cello. His real name is Pure Tone, and he is the great grandson of revered musician Octavia Philharmonica, a fact that causes him no end of grief. His family expects him to follow in her hoofsteps, and become a world-renowned cellist.

He doesn't care about that. He wants to travel the world, experience everything that life has to offer, something he'd never manage if he became a professional musician as his family wishes. When his father threatens to kick him out if he doesn't begin taking his lessons more seriously, the colt takes matters into his own hooves and runs away from his hometown of Manehatten, intent on seeing all that Equestria has to offer with his two childhood friends, Diomedea and Sterling Song!