Joe Hilder
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Jump to navigationJump to searchJoe Hilder, Gembrook, Vic provided details of some of the Australian tunes in this archive.
The National Library of Australia holds aural recordings of interviews conducted with Joe Hilder. He was interviewed by
- Alan Musgrove in July 1996, [1]. "Joe Hilder talks about his first dance band approx. 35 years ago; learning the button accordion; playing, piano/violin/button accordion on the back of a truck up and down the main street of Gembrook 40 years ago; vamping on the mouth organ; 25 shillings paid for a band; playing 50/50 with board up to show dances; playing only Alberts; the band being named 'The Door Knobs'; his occupation as a truck driver; microphones being used, primitive; making up poems as he drove; the local paper requesting his poems; his mother teaching them poetry and reciting; his mother singing and reciting poetry; wanting to buy an accordion; the type of reeds used on an accordion he had; dot and dash system; his poem 'Hume' being written in truckies language; a truckies/drivers job; his father being German; Amarki accordion (?)"
