New Hampshire and Massachusetts

There are instruments nobody plays.And people nobody plays for.

We put the two together.

Instruments come in — from attics, basements and estates.

Music goes out — students play where people can no longer get out to hear it.

I need an instrument → Give one a second life

Since 2021

The instruments are out there. So are the children.

Every week somebody stops playing an instrument, and not far away a child is waiting to start. Closing that distance is the whole job. If you have one gathering dust, a child who needs one, or a room that wants filling — tell us.

I have an instrument I need one

Music enriches lives.

A child with an instrument has something that is theirs, that nobody can take away, and that gets better the more they give to it.

Music heals.

It is what people go to when a day has been hard. In a room where the days can pass without much happening, half an hour of live playing changes the afternoon.

Music makes us dream.

Every musician began as somebody who heard something and thought: I would like to be able to do that.

Two programs, one idea

The music always ends up somewhere they can't get to.

Music itself is free. Only the instrument costs anything, and only the distance keeps people from hearing it played. Two different-looking problems, one answer: move the music — into the house in one direction, into the room in the other.

A case being lifted into the back of a car.

Instruments

Second Life

There is an instrument in more houses than you would guess, and with pianos the obstacle was never the price — it is the stairs. Getting one down them is the hard part, so that is the part we take on.

You tell us what you need. We do the hunting.
We ask, we haggle, we find the van.
We take on the move — donated vans, and movers who will give us a job for nothing. That is what kills most piano donations.
The instrument is free. A piano move we go and find somebody to cover, and we say so quickly when we cannot.

See what we have found

A student playing an upright piano for residents in a day room.

Performances

Mini Maestros

Students play in nursing homes and senior residences. Not a recital — at a recital the room came for you, and here you are the one who came. Just an afternoon, in the room where people already are.

Half an hour. Any instrument. No audition.
Parents chaperone. Students are never there on their own.
The same students go back, so residents learn their names.
Counts toward service hours.

How it works

Getting an instrument

You ask. We go looking.

Most families give up on finding an instrument because the search itself is the hard part. That's the part we take over.

Tell us

What, who for, roughly where. Two minutes. No paperwork, no proof of anything.

We search

Students watch listings, estate sales and noticeboards, then ask outright.

We arrange it

We do the talking with the owner and organize the collection. For a piano that means finding a move we can cover — a donated job, a volunteer with the right van, or somebody willing to settle the bill.

It's yours

Delivered and serviced, and it never costs you anything. With a piano we will say straight away if we cannot find a way to move it. We only ask that it gets played.

The hammers and strings inside an upright piano.

Music itself is free. It is the instrument that costs.

Second Life

An empty room of chairs facing an upright piano.

Nothing beats live music. Not for the person playing it, and not for the person listening.

Mini Maestros

Why the nursing homes

At a recital, everyone came for you. Here, you came for them — and they will still be talking about it on Tuesday. — Ethan Ng, Director

Come and play Bring music to your residents

Play it forward.

Instruments where they’re needed.
Music where it’s missed.