Tillie is the youngest and only female member of the Beverley Band. She is also a daughter of an Earl, her father lets her play with the band on the condition that none of her family find out about it.
Other Appearances:
Leopold Mozart takes his two musically talented children Marianne and Wolfgang on tour around Europe.
Joyce Jones’ Dad, Granddad and Uncle Fred formed themselves into a pop group. Unknown to Joyce’s mother Pop’s Group had been given a recording contract.
Gita Jones was determined to play her guitar and earn her fare to America in the hopes of finding her father.
Penny Harris had been give a violin that had once belonged to a girl, Pauline Harcourt, who died of a broken heart because she couldn’t master the instrument. Pauline’s unhappy spirit seemed to want Penny to succeed where she had failed. Penny’s parents and teacher were surprised when she began playing like an expert.
When he died violinist Rupert West left his cook’s daughter money and a violin on the condition that she passed a certain music exam by the end of the years. His relatives want that money so they wish to see Vickie fail.
Old Walnut is the nickname of an old piano, often a face would appear on the front of the piano, caused by the graining of the wood and the way the light shone on it. The piano had many owners over the years and somehow helps people in need, such as giving a girl courage to dance at an audition after a family accident distresses her.
Marjory Lane is a talented pianist who is practising for an important audition, but the piano at her home has been left to fall into bad condition since her father’s death. She is offered tuition and use of piano by Carl Walden but her mother won’t allow it as she blames Carl for her husbands death.
Morna Richards was very fond of music, and was delighted when a strange old woman gave her a lute. While playing the lute, Morna and a friend saw a flash of lightning and were mysteriously transported into medieval times. When they returned to modern times, the lute had changed into a fiddle!
Fourteen year old Pippa Hendrix was looking for her grandfather, an entertainer. He had vanished after a street accident and the Children’s Officer planned to put Pippa in a Home. Pippa was convinced her grandfather had lost his memory and that he was visiting seaside towns he played in long ago. So Pippa packed up her one-man band kit, and with the aid of Grandfather’s scrapbook she set off to find him.
