Piano 4

I failed to get into the parish church in Ewell Village, so the occasional series of pianos continues with the piano in the 'Griffin Belle' off the South Lambeth Road at Vauxhall. The public house which was once known as the 'Builders Arms' or some such.

The first electrical piano of the series, this one from Yamaha, with lots of buttons top right. The speckling top left is the reflection of something behind the camera, rather than any failing in the lacquer. I did not think to try any of the keys, but maybe, being electrical, the instrument does not go out of tune in the way that antique pianos - including here most public house pianos - do. And if the thing does not have strings, does it need all that casing at all? Could it also be entered for the fake series?

The glass of Sancerre which came with the piano was a little dear, probably more for a third of a bottle than they paid for the whole bottle, but otherwise quite acceptable.

Altogether a house which now tries for a higher tone than that of the years when I first knew it, maybe twenty years ago.

Reference 1: http://www.griffinbelle.co.uk/.

Reference 2: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2018/11/piano-3.html.

Reference 3: https://psmv3.blogspot.com/2017/07/pubs-down.html. Probably my last visit to the Griffin. Unfortunately, I forgot today to check on the state of the smoking den.

Reference 4: https://pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.com/search?q=griffin+woodforde. This appears, at least from the blog record, to be the visit before that, more than eight years ago. So I think that record must be missing a few visits. So many that it was not worth noticing them?

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