St. Augustine adds 5 pianos to cultural cargo for Cuba

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AP via The Miami Herald - May 22, 2002

Augustine adds 5 pianos to cultural cargo for Cuba  

ST. AUGUSTINE -- (AP) -- A shipment of musical instruments bound for
music and dance schools in Cuba stopped in St. Augustine long enough
for five pianos to be added to the collection.

The pianos were donated Monday by area residents as part of a
national collection effort that already has swung along the East
Coast.

The St. Augustine-Baracoa Friendship Association joined the effort
after teenage musicians from the Camaguey (Cuba) Conservatory of
Music made an appeal for instruments while performing in St.
Augustine in April, said Sali McIntire, the association's secretary.

In addition to the pianos, four flutes, a piccolo, a violin, a banjo
and a tambourine were donated.

New York resident Benjamin Treuhaft started the Send a Piana to
Havana project in 1995 after going to Cuba and watching aspiring
young musicians practicing on deteriorating instruments.

The nearly full 48-foot-long truck that stopped in St. Augustine will
go next to Tampa, where it and another truck from California with
about 30 pianos will be unloaded onto a ship bound next week for
Cuba.


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