ROBESONIA, Pa. – This sound filled rooms across Berks County for decades.
And now, it fills this space at Trinity Lutheran Church in Robesonia, where Berks County will soon gather to remember Karl Hausman, the piano player so many called the Piano Man.
“He was a very humble person. He never thought of himself as being successful, productive. But he always was,” said Carolyn Hausman, Karl’s wife.
Carolyn and their daughters paused funeral preparations Tuesday to talk with 69 News.
“We went into his bedroom, and on his bed was this photograph of him holding the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He put that there, because that’s what he wanted to remember himself as,” Carolyn said.
Hausman died at home over the weekend from a viral illness. He was 84.
Carolyn remembers the first time she saw him play.
“He was on the piano, sitting on a stack of beer kegs, playing. He was all over the keyboard,” she recalled.
Many remember Karl from his appearance on “Music Monday” on 69 News at Sunrise.
But his reach went far beyond television.
His YouTube channel, Karl’s Piano Music, is now followed by more than 4,500 people.
But to his family, he was first a husband, a father and a musician who never stopped playing.
“I think the happiest days were the days that we celebrated both of their weddings. We did it. We made it,” said Carolyn.
Karl’s service is set for Thursday, February 19th, at 2 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church.