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I Taught Myself Piano In A Prison Cell, Using A Cardboard Box

MUSIC Posted: December 29, 2016 5:30 am

Demetrius Cunningham, an inmate at an Illinois correctional facility, wanted to learn to play so he could accompany the prison’s chapel choir. But he had access to a piano for only an hour a week. So he mocked up a model keyboard and got busy.

MUSIC Published: 12.22.16

Read the story in The New Yorker Published: 12.22.16

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