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Stranger gives autistic boy a $15,000 piano after hearing him play

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  • Source: CBS News
  • 7 Jan 2023 15:37
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A piano tuner uses his father's inheritance to encourage an autistic boy's musical gift.

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  • Stranger gives autistic boy a $15,000 piano after hearing him play.
    The stranger gave the autistic boy a $15,000 piano after hearing him play.

CBS reported about Jude Kofie, 11, who received an incredible surprise late last year. He received a grand piano at his house one day. "All for free," said his father, Isaiah. "Who does that?" 

Going back a year and a half, Isaiah Kofie heard a noise coming from the basement. There was an old keyboard down there, but no one knew how to play it, certainly not his autistic son — or so he thought, according to the news report. 

Jude had never had a lesson. No one taught him how to play. But Isaiah got Jude a larger keyboard to see what more he could do. "It's a miracle," Jude said of his musical talents. 

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"You think it's a miracle?" CBS News asked Jude. "That's what I prefer," Jude responded. Bill Magnusson prefers that, too.

Magnusson works as a piano tuner. He heard Jude play after seeing a local news story about him. He discovered Jude's parents had immigrated from Ghana and were raising four children while sending money back home.

"What resources are left over to help this special little soul?" Magnusson said. 

Magnusson used his father's inheritance to purchase a $15,000 piano (worth $45,000) and promised to tune it once a month for the rest of his life. He's also paying for Jude to receive professional instruction. "We're family now," Magnusson said. 

"Somebody to just love your son like that by making sure that his future is secured, we are super thankful," Isaiah said.

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