Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Eavestaff Pianos Harringay - Can anyone Name the Stars?
Eavestaff is one of the best loved names of English Piano making. Along with Brasted, Challen, Boyd and Barret & Robison they were based in Harringay's Warehosue district until the collapse of British piano making in the 1970s.
Looking for something else, I've just stumbled across this old Eavestaff ad in my files. Charming as it is, I'm not sure that I could name one of the stats of the late thirties. Can anyone fill in the gaps?
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Permalink Reply by maggie on
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My guess is that the list on the right gives the names of the stars starting with Gracie Fields and including Harry Roy, Jack Payne and Ambrose. I can't find my glasses to make out the others!
Heres one that Trump would approve of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y5ywCdhShk
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Permalink Reply by Geoff Amabilino on
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Hi Hugh,Lowest right hand picture is Harry Roy. Top left is Gracie Fields, I think. Middle star with a 'tache is Charlie Kunz, just south-west of him is Jack Hylton. Between him and Harry Roy I think is Flotsam (Bentley Hilliam)
Bert Ambrose and Roy Fox aren't there. I may take another look later...
All this via Google!
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I think Ambrose is bottom far left,
Malcolm Mc Eachern (Jepson) is bottom middle,
Jack Payne is to the right and slightly below Gracie. ???
The two with monocles top right are the Western brothers.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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I'm impressed. The only ones I'd heard of were Gracie Fields and Jack Hylton.
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As you know I have more than a passing acquaintance with the music of that period.
After Maggie's YT clip, I was looking for another Harry Roy ditty 'Make Funny Faces At Your Neighbours' but it isn't up there. I may just have to digitise it...
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Another little nugget of Eavestaff history is the green 1926 Eavestaff that Paul McCartney used for the first rendition of 'Yesterday' - officially the most covered song in history.
The Eavestaff mini-piano was owned by a friend, the singer Alma Cogan. McCartney dreamt of the melody the previous night while in bed and went round to her house in 1964, fearing it might have been an existing melody. The piano was used for the first rendition of the tune. It last changed hands in April 2011 when it sold for £150,000.
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