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HERE is Bill McGuffie at the piano in the BBC's "Show Band Show." As a boy his professional future seemed assured until the day he caught his hand in the door of a telephone kiosk and had to have the third finger of his right hand amputated. His music teacher saw this accident as the end of a promising career, but Bill was more optimistic and practised more fiercely than ever. He was voted the best jazz pianist of 1953 by two English musical papers.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 765, 19 March 1954, Page 25
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87BBC photograph HERE is Bill McGuffie at the piano in the BBC's "Show Band Show." As a boy his professional future seemed assured until the day he caught his hand in the door of a telephone kiosk and had to have the third finger of his right hand amputated. His music teacher saw this accident as the end of a promising career, but Bill was more optimistic and practised more fiercely than ever. He was voted the best jazz pianist of 1953 by two English musical papers. New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 765, 19 March 1954, Page 25
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