Max van Gelder (Max Geldray), harmonica player: born Amsterdam 12 February 1916; twice married (one son); died Palm Springs, California 2 October 2004. Max Geldray was a fine harmonica player who ...

Josh Morris (Letters, August 11) rightly identifies Max Geldray as the second-greatest harmonica player, but it was with the Wally Stott orchestra's support, not Ray Ellington's, that he made his name ...

Max Geldray, who has died aged 88, was a Dutch musician who found the atmosphere of Britain congenial when he visited the country as a child. Indeed, in 1940, following the Nazi invasion of Belgium, ...

Max Geldray, one of the musicians on hit 1950s radio comedy The Goons, has died, a close friend has confirmed. Geldray, 88, known as "Conks" to listeners, performed alongside Goons Spike Milligan, ...

QUESTION What is the story behind the harmonica player Max Geldray, who features on The Goon Show? BORN Max van Gelder to a Jewish family in Amsterdam in 1916, Geldray was a pioneering jazz harmonica ...

Max Geldray, who has died aged 88, was a Dutch musician who found the atmosphere of Britain congenial when he visited the country as a youngster. Indeed, in 1940, following the Nazi invasion of ...

Max Geldray, who has died in California aged 88, started out as a pioneer of the jazz harmonica, but became best known as a member of The Goon Show with Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers ...