BBCNEWS This Cultural Life June 4, 2024 02:32:00
Childhood is that in my house, from a very young age, was my great—grandmother's pianola, which some people call a pedal piano, and a lot of people had pedal pianos and inherited them, but mostly, they sat there gathering dust. but my mum retained ours and got it, kept it working because we had this collection of something like 300 or 400 pianola rolls, scrolls, and so that was played a lot. and so i grew up listening to all these old pre—war songs like, you know, funiculi, funicula and all these weird songs and then, you know, sound of music and oliver! and all those musicals were on pian...