He lived in Southend, he lives in New Zealand now. Yeah, I was 14, that’s with Dennis Hayward and Les Steele, the bass player. There's another photo there of when you were playing at the Ritz in Southend. Jack has still got his and I bought one and we only vaguely knew each other in those days and it’s a straight tune instrument built for jazz, which suited me down to the ground. Came over from America and Jack Embelow had bought one also, 2 or 3 of these came over from American in 1957. I subsequently bought an American Excelsior accordion which I still have to this day and it's a marvellous instrument. When we came out the car was gone and so was the accordion. I'd done a gig with Freddie Mirfield and I took him back to his flat in Hans Place, went in for a cup of coffee and I left the accordion in the car. I had it for 7 years and then it got stolen, and funnily enough when it got stolen I was with Freddie Mirfield. Anyway my Dad was struggling, my Mum was working, we were very poor but I had national savings certificates worth that money so my father said I could pull them out and buy the accordion, and we did. And Don, my teacher, had to come round and have dinner with my parents and persuade them I was worthy of such an instrument. I know this because in 1957 I bought my first really good accordion from them which was the princely sum of £250. He went into partnership with an Italian named Firmino Gaudini and they started importing accordions into London. At the age of 18 I acquired my first car and he was in business in Frith Street in the West End. He was playing with Max Jaffa, he was playing with Beniamino Gigli the singer, he did all Victor Sylvester’s broadcasts on television and I used to travel to Streatham every fortnight for an hour’s music lesson with him. Within a few months he got back on his feet and he moved back to London and he was living in Streatham and he was playing with well known people. But anyway, to cut a long story short: she rang him up and she sent me up to see him and I played for him and he said it was dreadful! But he said he would teach me and he did, he started teaching me. He was Italian and he'd been in 'Stars In Battledress' and was in ENSA during the war. And as luck would have it we found an advert in the Southend Standard for a gentleman named Don Destofano who had just come out of the Army. She being a very intelligent woman said “If you’re going to play that don't mess about with it, you've got to be taught properly”. Well two years afterwards when I was 13 my mother sent me into the staircase to get something under the cupboard and I found the accordion, pulled it out, stuck it on and in fact it's out there now on top of that bookcase and it was love at first sight. I started piano lessons at the age of 11 when we moved here.ġ944. When we moved to Southend for some unknown reason the accordion got wrapped up and it got chucked under the stairs. During the war both my mother and father played the accordion. Both my parents were very musical, my mother was a very good pianist and we moved to Southend. Well I hadn't had a music lesson or anything because the war was on. You started accordion at the age of 13.What made you take up that instrument? Now all of a sudden it Only shows up in a totally different state and with exact name search. Is there something I could do to send signals to Google to show that I am in Matthews, NC?Ģ months ago my listing quit showing up at all unless you typed exact business name What could possibly cause my listing or Google to do this? I have been without my listing for a few months now and have NO calls coming in from it. If you search Locksmith Independence, KS it shows up on the maps. If you search Locksmith Matthews, NC my listing does not show up at all. Keep in mind the GMB is in Matthews, NC All my service areas and the actual map show the correct areas. Now if I search my business name under the auto populate I see it with Independence, KS on the listing. I pretty much do not have any traffic, views or calls now. Posted about my SAB listing a few weeks ago about not showing up in search only when you entered the exact name.
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