Residents of Sarasota, Florida, have been impressed with the piano skills of Donald Gould, a homeless man who is living on the streets. Gould told local ABC affiliate My Suncoast, “I was thinking I could just put my hat on the piano and make a couple dollars and get tips. I didn’t expect it to jump out to this.” Gould, a 51-year-old Marine veteran, learned to play the piano as a kid and studied music education at Spring Arbor University in Michigan. After his wife passed away in 1998, he developed a substance abuse problem. The pianos are a part of a community arts program called the Sarasota Keys Piano Project, through which six pianos were placed around the city.
