Motown left its mark on Paul McCartney, and now McCartney wants to leave his on Motown: The pop superstar will finance restoration of the label’s historic piano. McCartney encountered the ebony-and-ivory of the Steinway grand piano while touring the Motown Museum before his July concert at Comerica Park.

The 134-year-old piano, used on innumerable Motown recordings in the 1960s, had long since fallen into disrepair but remained on display in the famed studio of the West Grand Boulevard site.

“When I visited the Motown Museum, I remembered listening to records as a kid in Liverpool, learning the songs ‘You Really Got a Hold on Me’ and ‘Money,’” McCartney said via a museum statement this afternoon. “I said to myself, ‘Wow! This is the Holy Grail!’”