Hot Piano at Church

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"Travis Cox got a call last week from the music director at Morton's Chapel Church, where he and his wife are part of a small congregation....The music director read news stories to him of how Margaret Webster consigned her piano for sale to Oden Music in Gadsden, and had not been able to get the piano back or any money from it."

"Cox called Det. Rick Jones at the Gadsden Police Department and told him he believed the piano the church bought about a year ago was the one Webster described. Jones confirmed the serial number; Webster's piano was found."

"Sunday morning, he relayed the entire saga to the church members -- to a small church family that had shelled out $10,000 for a piano they now expected to lose. And he told them Webster wanted them to keep the piano. 'The tears were flowing,' Cox said, and people were amazed at her generosity."

"Webster wanted only to come see her grandmother's piano one more time, and for the church to help police in their investigation....It was an emotional time for her, as she walked into the church and made her way behind the altar to where the baby grand sat."

"'I've chased this piano for two years,' she said. 'I lost sleep, I wondered how to accept that I'd never find it.'... 'If these weren't good, strong, Christian people, they wouldn't have called the detective,' Webster said. She said she hopes their example will inspire other people to step up when they see injustice."