Incognito Jazz Funk CD

Lotte describes, "I found an old zither in our loft, it had no strings but I knew somehow it was supposed to have strings. I was told that Mamma played as a young girl and it was her zither. I wanted to hear some sound out of this instrument and found some very long horse hairs that I somehow wound onto this thing. It made little fluffy sounds. So, I wanted this zither fixed up and began to beg for it to be made up. I was then about 11. There was no money for anything like this, but I didn't give in, I promised to go and learn from the village zither teacher Frau Danklmaier.""Somehow I succeeded, the instrument was fixed and I started lessons. They of course also were not free. It was arranged, that for payment for the half hour per week I would take a litre can of milk from our farm. So, for two years, come hail or snow or sunshine, I walked with my little zither in one hand and a can of milk in the other, a good half hour to my teacher. She was strict and stood on the various occasions with a ruler in her hand, ready for a bit of 'teaching me the hard way'. She was happy with me and suggested I go to Vienna's conservatory to carry on seriously with music. But this definitely was out of the question for there was no money for something quite like that."Lotte left home as there was nothing for all of the children to do or learn and she started working in restaurants, waitressing mainly, taking her little zither with her wherever she went and she developed a popular following."I met my Australian husband in this ski resort 'Wagrain', where I was at that time dental nursing for a brother of mine. I followed him to London early 1957 and we married the same year. My first few months in London I had a small job with my zither playing in a restaurant called MonaMe, people loved it."Lotte was encouraged to go on Hughie Green's - Opportunity Knocks program which was a very popular weekly show on T.V.I and although very successful she didn't win. The piece I played ...