History & local legend
Sloan Fine Arts Building at Lock Haven is the setting of a piano story recalled by a former student writing as the Pennsylvania Rambler. The incident took place in the late 1990s, while a group waited outside the Countdown Theater on the third floor for a play to begin.
They heard piano music filling the hallway. One student went to see who was playing, checked the practice rooms, and returned without finding anybody. Others joined the search, looking through the third floor and checking the floor below. They still could not locate a pianist. Some said the music could no longer be heard once the stairwell door closed behind them.
The performance lasted about ten minutes, then stopped abruptly. The group remembered it as beautiful music, not a threatening sound.
