“They were my favourite band growing up. Dave was my hero, and this was his keyboard": How The Repair Shop restored The Stranglers’ vintage keyboard

Dave Greenfield of The Stranglers performs on stage at The Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London, United Kingdom, January 30th 1977.

A vintage keyboard belonging to the Stranglers has been restored to something approaching its former glory by the BBC show The Repair Shop.

If you check out yesterday's edition on iplayer, you can see the story of the instrument, a rare 1950s Hohner Cembalet. It originally belonged to Dave Greenfield of the band but had passed through a number of hands and was going to be thrown on to a skip when its owner saw the words ‘The Stranglers’ stencilled on its side and decided to gift it to Greenfield’s replacement, current keyboard player, Toby Housham.