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He loved to undercut his own fondness for high culture.

For example, he was a talented pianist but developed a gag where he would begin to play a familiar piece such as Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.

After he had established the identity of the piece being performed, Dawson would introduce hideously wrong notes ( yet not to the extent of destroying the identity of the tune ) without appearing to realise that he had done so, meanwhile smiling unctuously and apparently relishing the accuracy and soul of his own performance.

He also used a grand piano in a series of sketches where it became animated, for example, trying to walk away from him across the stage, collapsing or shutting its lid.