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Pianas for Havana

Send a Piana to Havana is a nonprofit that arranges to have used pianos and parts shipped from the US to Cuba:

There's an aspect of the U.S. embargo on Cuba that we don't consider: Countless young musicians struggle on antique American pianos with strings long since rusted through, or on bad Russian pianos half-eaten by termites. Cuba's reknowned music pedagogy produces famous results, but as few new pianos are imported to Cuba, and replacement parts are unavailable, Cuba's musical community suffers.

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