pianos and inherited them, but mostly, they sat there gathering dust. but my mum retained ours and kept it working because we had this collection of something like 300 or 400 pianola rolls, scrolls, and so that was played a lot. and so i grew up listening to all these old pre war songs like, you know, funiculi, funicula and all these weird songs and then, you know, sound of music and oliver! and all those musicals were on pianola rolls. i mean, it feels like a completely different generation. it s a mechanised piano. so then did you start emulating on the piano? were you following along on the keys? i wonder if. ..the extent to which that influenced me. certainly, it s not that simply causal, but, interestingly, my brother took up guitarjust as a kid and i learnt piano and i didn t really take to music lessons very well and neither did he,