Taking up the challenge of a couple of anecdotes laid down by Susanne...

Of the names on my list two are less known, Peter Arrowsmith was the musician for Lincoln Morris Men back in the early/mid seventies.   Played a big B/C/C# box with full bass end. He sold me my first concertina (an East German G/D box), lent me music, put up with me and encouraged me. Without him I would probably not have played squeezebox. I used to dance Bacca Pipes Jig and on one occassion (outside Lincoln Cathedral) he played it 50% faster than usual. Between figures I'm trying to catch his eye and motion "slow down", no avail. Afterwards he apologised and said he'd been listening To "Morris on" too much. Lovely man, had a stroke in the mid seventies and died some years later. I owe him a lot.

Pat will be known to anyone who visited Cleethorpes Festival in the seventies and early eighties where he could be found sitting ramrod straight, fiddle under his chin, in the middle of the sessions in the bar. Irish fiddle player, one of the best, one of the great players for the feis, could play the same tune for an hour and each dancer got the same tempo and rhythm. Took time to show me how to ornament, how to listen to a tune and get the feel of it. I use what he taught me everytime I play.

Steve