A student-run project · New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts
We find instruments nobody is playing and get them to kids who would. Then we take those kids to play for people who don't get out to hear music anymore.
Two programs, one idea
A family that can't afford a piano and a ninety-year-old who can't get to a concert hall are kept from music by the same thing: distance and cost. We close it in both directions.
Instruments are sitting unused in more homes than you would believe — pianos especially, where the obstacle isn't the price, it's the stairs. We find them, we handle the logistics, and we place them with students who will play them.
Students perform in nursing homes, memory care units and senior residences. Not a recital — nobody is being judged, and no one's parents are in the audience. It's an afternoon of company, and the same students come back.
Getting an instrument
Most families give up on finding an instrument because the search itself is the hard part. That's the part we take over.
What instrument, who it's for, and roughly where you are. Two minutes, no documentation, no proof of income.
Our students watch listings, estate sales and donation offers across the region every week, and we ask directly for the ones that look promising.
We do the talking with the owner and sort out the collection — piano movers included, which is usually what stops a donation from happening.
Delivered to you, tuned or serviced where it needs it, and free. We just ask that it gets played.
Right now
Why the nursing homes
A recital is played for an audience of parents, and it's judged. This is played for people who have been waiting all week for something to happen. — Ethan, Director
Rye, NH · Piano and violin in the common room. [demo-seed]
Exeter, NH · Afternoon programme, memory care wing. [demo-seed]
Portsmouth, NH · Piano, flute and a short singalong. [demo-seed]