{"id":468539,"date":"2026-10-17T05:44:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T05:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/468539\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T05:44:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T05:44:29","slug":"70-year-old-piano-finds-new-home-at-east-texas-oil-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/468539\/","title":{"rendered":"70-year-old piano finds new home at East Texas Oil Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">KILGORE, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; The East Texas Oil Museum in Kilgore has received a special donation: a 70-year-old piano gifted by a local family with deep ties to the oilfield industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cSo excited to have it. We are over the moon excited,\u201d said Angela Turner, manager of the East Texas Oil Museum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The piano belonged to Dale and Billie Grandstaff. Their daughter, Sharon Holden, said the piano stood in the church where her parents married in 1954. When the church disbanded in 1959, it was gifted to her parents and remained part of the family\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">While remodeling her parents\u2019 former home ahead of moving back in with her husband, Holden contacted the museum about accepting the piano.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI felt that it was very important to put that piano in the right place. Out of respect. And what better place than the East Texas Oil Museum,\u201d Holden said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe owners were a big part of the oilfield and the oilfield industry and of course, that\u2019s what we\u2019re famous for here,\u201d Turner said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Holden said her family would be glad to see it preserved for future visitors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cDad would be happy. My mom. My family would be glad. For generations, it\u2019ll be here. For people to learn about and appreciate,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Visitors can see the piano in the Home Life section at the East Texas Oil Museum.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KILGORE, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; The East Texas Oil Museum in Kilgore has received a special donation: a 70-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-468539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}