The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #167219   Message #4030331
Posted By: Bonnie Shaljean
26-Jan-20 - 01:50 PM
Thread Name: joby isobel sutherland groombridge .club
Subject: RE: joby isobel sutherland groombridge .club
I absolutely loved that club, and Isobel & Joby too. He was brilliant at restoring old harmoniums and cottage organs, and they kept a wonderful collection in their house. I had a fantastic time playing on them all... think I finally had to be forcibly dragged away... claw marks in the floor are probably still visible...

In fact I got the more modern-looking of the two harmoniums I used to gig with from them. (The other was an elegant Victorian mahogany fold-down one from a ship's chapel.) Still have 'em both too. We also bought a non-portable harmonium from Joby, which Isobel said had come from a Non Conformist chapel in Yorkshire or somewhere.

Aaaaaaand, it's just hit me that only this morning in the kitchen I was singing one of her songs in my head. I love how people live on in their music after they're gone. Yes, wonderful memories.