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A stranger spent his inheritance on this boy's first grand piano

Aurora, Colorado · 4 August 2026

A tuner read about the boy. Then he opened his wallet.

Jude Kofie was 9 when he found an unused electric keyboard in his family's Colorado basement and put his hands on the keys for the first time. The autistic son of a Ghanaian immigrant, he turned out to be a natural, the kind of player local papers write about. That is how Bill Magnuson, a piano tuner in Aurora, first heard of him. He came to a talent show to see for himself. "He's beyond special," Magnuson told CBS News reporter Steve Hartman. "He's Mozart level. It's coming from somewhere beyond." Then a truck pulled up to the Kofie house. Magnuson had spent much of his family inheritance, about $15,000, on a brand new grand piano for a boy he barely knew. It came with lifetime tuning and professional lessons. "We are super thankful," said Jude's father, Isiah, wiping his eyes. Jude is 14 now, touring, with an album out called Introducing: Jude Kofie.

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