Tickling the ivories: Pat Niese plays the new piano next to Percy Baxter Lodges resident James Dunn while Brian Burch and Gayle Dougherty look on.
A GENEROUS donation is helping residents of a North Geelong aged care facility make beautiful music again.
Barwon Health’s Percy Baxter Lodges has taken delivery of a piano after matching the donations of Rotary Club of Bayside Geelong and Brian Burch Pianos.
The money paid for a new Australian-made Alex Steinbach piano to entertain the Baxter Lodges residents.
Facility manager Gayle Dougherty said the donation was a welcome addition, with the lodges’ previous piano past its use-by date.
“The residents are impressed,” she said.
“Church services and concerts are so much better. It sounds beautiful and more residents are spontaneously playing the piano because it’s an Alex Steinbach.”
The residents hosted a concert last Friday to celebrate the new piano, with Geelong Grammar students and volunteer musicians also lending their talents.
