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Subject: Re: Mal Moved in w/ McCartney at Cavendis Ave.
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2024 06:34:29 -0500
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On 2024-10-06 19:17:29 +0000, Norbert said:

> After moving to 7 Cavendish Avenue, with Jane Asher on an American tour,
> and having fired his two housekeepers, McCartney invited Mal Evans to
> move in with him.  According to Womack's Evans bio:
> 
> Mal's quarters at 7 Cavendish Avenue were located in the basement, but
> his favorite part of the house was the third floor, where Paul had
> assembled a sumptuous music room.  "We were to send many pleasant
> evenings in the little room at the top of the house," Mal wrote.  The
> space was filled with instruments, but its centerpiece was "a very gaily
> decorated piano."  Painted by Simon Posthuma and Marijke Koger -- Dutch
> artists who would adopt "the Fool" as the name of their design
> collective -- the piano had been designed by pop art designers Dudley
> Edwards and his partner Doulas Binder in October 1966.  Because of its
> psychedelic imagery, Paul took to calling the instrument his "magic
> piano."

Hasn't Paul played some kind of similar psychedelic painted piano 
onstage in recent years?

I don't know if it's the same one, or if he'd want to subject something 
with such sentimental value to the rigors of touring.

Although he does play one of his vintage '60s basses regularly doesn't 
he. The security around that thing must rival the Mona Lisa, lol.