The sound of music at Mercer University is about to get a lot richer and a lot more enhanced.

That’s because a large donation to the music school bought students nearly 40 brand new, top-of-the line Steinway pianos and helped refurbish seven others.

Mercer University’s chancellor, Dr. Kirby Godsey, gave $1.5 million to the Townsend School of Music in his wife, Joan’s, honor.

That money helped create the Joan Stockstill Godsey Center for Keyboard Studies and will cover annual maintenance and upkeep for the pianos.

“I was totally blown away, I had no idea,” Joan Godsey said.

For Godsey, ebony and ivory are her solace.

“I started piano when I was 7 years old and music has been my life,” Godsey said.

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