Hey, if you're walking in downtown Louisville, you may come across some pianos.

Well, they are there for you.

Downtown tunes is a public art project encouraging people to create music and decorate the sounds of downtown.

More on these public pianos in this week's tapestry segment.

Downtown tunes is a public piano program.

We have four pianos in public spaces.

And it really is a chance to activate the street.

So we were offered a piano, a as a donation, and, we didn't know what to do with it.

And so I started looking around, and we found other cities that do this.

We got three more donations.

And so we took them in and then decided to put them out to downtown, middle and high schools, and let the students work on the design and painting them.

We knew we wanted them to be artistically treated, and we wanted there to be some ownership and pride of what they looked like.

And we thought our students.

This could make a very fun project for art students.

And what you see are four completely different, beautiful renditions of these students ideas of what they wanted to see represented on pianos.

This is not a piece of art that you look at and observe from afar.

You do not have to be a trained pianist to play.

If you are just curious about what a piano is, come and sit down, plunk on it and figure out what kind of sounds it makes.

If you are good, sit down and create music for other people to really enjoy and just have the beauty of the moment as they walk by.

People will send us videos, as they're walking by and see somebody playing the piano, which is really fun.

And it's heartening that people are enjoying them now.

We are learning things.

We have, trying to work with the weather in Louisville is difficult.

We had a very rainy spring.

It's been very hot and humid right now.

So we're learning how to treat them a little bit differently.

And what we'll do going forward.

When you're walking around downtown, what you see, how you feel has everything to do with your experience in downtown.

So with this audible addition of, something else to experience, we're just really, hopeful and heartened already that people are having really good experiences with these people as, how cool is that?

More pianos have already been donated in downtown Louisville.

Partnership plans to expand the Downtown Tunes program next year, with up to eight pianos.

Thank you so much for joining us tonight for this Kentucky edition.

We'll see you again tomorrow night.