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Photo credit: Maria Boyadjieva | Nikki Egna of Port Washington, founder for the Piano for Patients program, began with volunteers from her temple. (Feb. 24, 2013)
Nikki Egna had been taking piano lessons for only two years, but she understood keenly what a shame it was to see a baby grand piano go unused in a room full of people.
She found herself in that situation one evening in 2010 at the Sands Point Center for Health and Rehabilitation in Port Washington, where she was attending a dinner with other volunteers from her temple.
But Egna, who...
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