- Organist.
- Outside the BBC studios Harry Stoneham avoided the public eye to the extent of keeping his telephone number and home address private.
- He started learning the piano at an early age.
- He studied at the London College of Music and switched his attention to the organ in 1962.
- Harry was perhaps most well known for his appearances on the BBC Terry Wogan and Michael Parkinson talk shows as musical director.
- During the 1960s he worked with several name bands - notably Johnny Howard's - and enjoyed playing any kind of music, if it's good.
- He did a Lowrey release "breakfast" function in Melbourne, Australia in 1977. He was doing promotion of the range in general with a little accent on the SCT Symphonic Citation Theatre.
- In the mid-sixties Harry Stoneham was the resident organist of a pub in Clapham, named The Plough. He worked with a drummer (unsurprisingly, Harry provided bass with his feet) called Johnny Eiden, and they were a duo under the name of "Two Fellas to Follow".
- Harry was also engaged as demonstrator for Lowrey Organs. He played a Lowrey Coronation for the biggest part of his residency as Musical Director on the Parkinson Show, before Lawrie Holloway replaced him.
- His death around Christmas time in 2018 was kept quiet by his wife as she did not want the news to spoil Christmas for others. This perhaps reflects the air of modesty that surrounded his private life.
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