Hi, JDimambro,

I have sent you a Private Message about your family. Thanks.

Hi,
This thread is rather old now, but I hope someone is still watching this. If so, I am interested in discovering more about the Bristol Dimambro family in the 20th century to support some research I am carrying out in the city.

Hi Jamie,

Thank you for the information on your family who, coming from Cassino, may well have been ‘Zampognari’; bagpipe players. However, they are part of they second wave of Italian musicians that settled; the first wave were children under their 'padrone' who returned to Italy after working ...

I do!
My family lived on montague street and were street musicians!

Please get back!

Hi, Jamie, This is great news; what more can you tell me? Would you prefer to discuss this outside the forum, or are you happy within?

What I am trying to link together are the Bristolian street piano makers ...

Hi,

I have just come across this wonderful website and hope that someone may be able to help me with a piece of research I am working on (I am at the music department at the University of Bristol). I am looking into the Italians who played (and made) barrel organs and barrel pianos in Bristol ...