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I have just posted some history which may interest you. Barnes Pianos were still active in 1937, because I went with my father (who was General Manager) to watch the coronation procession from the shop in Oxford Street.

My father, Frederick William Taylor was General Manager about 1932 to 1938. He started at the company by taking a job advertised as "piano tracer" only finding out after being taken on that this meant tracing pianos bought on hire purchase when payments had lapsed, which was common. He was...