ST. LOUIS — When Belinda Darden got the call that would change everything, her daughter Ava was already in love with the piano.
That love and the people determined to protect it would become one of the few constants in a year that had very few.
On Cherokee Street, inside the storefront of the nonprofit Pianos for People, donated instruments are tuned up and sent back out into the world. Some go to homes filled with laughter. Some go to homes that desperately need it…