An employee at a hospital in Langhorn, Pennsylvania, is using his musical talents to provide comfort to visitors and patients.
Calvin Dingle, who has worked as a custodian at St. Mary Medical Center for a little over a month, has been playing the piano in the lobby, filling the building with sounds of musical notes, according to Fox29.
“He’s an awesome person, you know, he lights up the room,” Alyssa Page, the housekeeping manager at the hospital told the outlet.
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Page explained to the outlet that Dingle asked to play the baby grand piano during his orientation.
“He started playing, and it just echoed through the hallways, ever since then he’s been the star of the show with the piano,” Page added.
Dingle, who works the evening shift, also works as the director of environmental services at Yardley Rehab.
He told the outlet he was inspired to play the piano seeing Jamie Foxx play the piano and ended up grabbing a copy of “Music Composition for Dummies” in order to teach himself how to play.
“I started to read the notes and put it all together, where C sharp is, where middle C is, triads, and different things, I pretty much sat down and taught myself,” Dingle said.
Dingle added that once he sees a piano in a place he works at, “it’s kind of hard to keep” him “away from a piano.”
“Just knowing I have the opportunity to touch the lives and hearts of people, it brings me joy,” Dingle added.