GOSHEN—Goshen may soon have some more keys on its street, but not for its doors.
In a project that is being called The Keys of Goshen, Mayor Kyle Roddey has been collecting pianos with the intent to fix, tune, and decorate them for Goshen’s streets.
He says he hopes they bring people downtown and get used for things like piano lessons, concerts, practice, music classes, and by anyone who wants to play.
“I think it will drive new people into the village,” he said.
Roddey put out a call last fall on social media for donated pianos and has collected five of them so far. Most of them do not have benches and some of them have sticky keys or cosmetic imperfections, but he says he'll try to make them work, and if not, people have offered to donate more.
“They’re a rag tag bunch, but with a little tender loving care we should be in business,” he said.
