John Rea
Sign in to saveAlso known as John Ray, King of the Baize, The King of the Baize
Scottish snooker player
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 16
Top works
- A sermon relative to Antichrist and the times
- The pet dove ...
- Power for God
- Sword of Gilead and the Book of Angels
- Comentario biblico y exegetico sobre el Espiritu Santo
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- Listeners
- 1,034
- Total plays
- 4,311
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Born in 1915 (some sources say 1922), John was the youngest of ten children. His six older brothers were all taught to play the fiddle by his father. However, as he was too small, his father had a dulcimer made by John's brother Alexander (a carpenter), using a borrowed dulcimer as a pattern, and that became John's instrument. This instrument was in turn used as the pattern for many other instruments made for other local people. In contrast to the wooden hammers generally employed by today's pla
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Scotland
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Sport
- snooker
- Country for sport
- Scotland
- Image
- John Rea Snooker Player.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1951-12-05
- century breaks
- 4
- highest break
- 147
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