We're in the wild wild western suburbs of Sydney - fires are nowhere near us, but we can smell them.
Rowan, a thousand years ago (in the late 60s) I worked at the library in Tamworth when it was the headquarters of a regional library service, two of the branches were in Barraba and Bingara. We used to get requests from a bloke at one of those branches - I forget which one, it was a long time ago - for books on building harpsichords, occasionally other instruments but usually harpsichords. They were quite esoteric requests in a country town in those days, as you can imagine, and we were very rarely successful in getting them by inter-library loan. Years later he became famous as you said, it was Bill Bright.

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JennieG