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Syncopating pianist
Sam Bennie , who became totally blind at the age of seven owing to meningitis, studied the organ, piano, and piano accordion at the School for the Blind at Swiss Cottage before graduating to the Royal Normal College at Norwood.
In April 1938, he won the final of the England and Scotland amateur pianoforte-playing contest over 520 rivals, and in the same month gave his first broadcast, with the Band-waggoners. Bennie runs and conducts his own band of twelve musicians, and has composed his own signature tune, ' I bring you music

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Pianist:
Sam Bennie

played by Leslie England (piano)
At a very early age Leslie England showed remarkable musical gifts and aroused the interest of several famous pianists, including Mark Hambourg and Paderewski, who encouraged him to take up the piano as a career. He came to London from Barrow-in-Furness when he was eight years old and studied privately for some years under various professors, until he succeeded in winning an open scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music.

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Piano:
Leslie England
Unknown:
Leslie England
Unknown:
Mark Hambourg

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