In 1966, Terence Lowe walked out of school at the age of just 14. He soon after secured an apprenticeship in the piano trade but had to wait several weeks until his 15th birthday, the legal age for work. By the age of 20 he was working as an outside tuner for Steinway & Sons in London, tuning pianos at all the capital’s concert halls, and the BBC, preparing instruments for the world’s most eminent classical musicians including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Andre Previn and Pavarotti. By the mid-1970s he had established his own business at 38 Wigmore St, next door to the Wigmore Hall, London W1. His clients were now rock musicians: Pete Townshend, Freddy Mercury, David Bowie, all the members of The Beatles, and The Wombles. While looking after the new Bosendorfer grand for George Martin in his new recording studio on the Caribbean island of Monserrat, he shared a bungalow with Beatles recording engineer Geoff Emerick. At the end of the 1970s he was on the fateful last tour of the band, Wings. In the early 1990s, he reconditioned Keith Richards’ psychedelic piano in his Totnes workshop. By now he had lost all his money and taken up life as a semi-feral piano tuner, living aboard an old boat, on the banks of the beautiful river Dart, that he had taken in lieu of payment for work done on a grand piano.