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Encyclopedia > Max Geldray
Max Geldray playing the harmonica
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Max Geldray playing the harmonica

Max Geldray (born 1916, Amsterdam, Netherlands, died October 2, 2004, Palm Springs, California, USA), was a jazz harmonica player, usually credited as being the first of such a kind. He was best known for his playing and occasional acting on the BBC Comedy Radio series, The Goon Show. Image File history File links Max Geldray playing the harmonica. ... Image File history File links Max Geldray playing the harmonica. ... 1916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ... Amsterdam Location Country The Netherlands Province North Holland Population 739,295 (1 January 2005) Coordinates 4°89E - 52°37N Website www. ... October 2nd is the 275th day (276th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 90 days remaining. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Palm Springs is a city located in Riverside County, California, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 42,807. ... Jazz is a musical art form characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms, and improvisation. ... A harmonica A harmonica is a free reed musical wind instrument (also known, among other things, as a mouth organ, french harp, simply harp, or Mississippi saxophone), having multiple, variably-tuned brass or bronze reeds, each secured at one end over an airway slot of like dimension into which it... The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was formed in 1927 by means of a royal charter. ... Comedy is the use of humour in the performing arts. ... The Goon Show was a hugely popular and extremely influential British radio comedy programme, which was originally produced and broadcast by the BBC from 1951 to 1960 on the BBC Home Service. ...


He also worked as a counselor at the Betty Ford Detoxification Center. The Betty Ford Center was co-founded by former United States First Lady Betty Ford and her friend, Ambassador Leonard Firestone, in 1982. ...


External links

  • Obituary on the GoonLog
  • Obituary on the Spike Milligan Tribute Site

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CMT.com : Max Geldray : Biography (783 words)
Whether the Dutch Max Geldray was the first jazz harmonica player in the genre's history is, like many such distinctions, a bit difficult to discern for sure.
Born Max Van Gelder, Geldray traced his interest in jazz harmonica back to 1932, when he tried out the chromatic version of the instrument while taking refuge from a torrential rainstorm, an occurrence that could practically happen any day of the week in Holland; the rain, not the harmonica tryout.
Enlisting in the army, the heroic Geldray was wounded during the landing at Normandy.
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