Haven’t you seen him at the piano in the famous post-war ones with many others?
The Kiromyti laundry kept the labour inspectorate, the market inspectors and its customers happy. Bravo to the señor, who managed all that without running at a loss—and even played the bouzouki.
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I can never even find a photo with a quick search. Do you happen to know of a specific photo of them playing the piano?
It’s well known that the multi-talented musician also played the piano!
https://rebetiko.gr/showphoto.php?id=995
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For example
https://rebetiko.sealabs.net/display.php?d=0&recid=8469
There are also a few photos of Peristeris at the piano on the Internet.
I can’t remember which thread on the forum we saw him at the piano in.
I found one …
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Fair enough, he played the piano. I didn’t know that, but I’m not all that surprised: if you’re a multi-instrumentalist, you play lots of instruments! 
But why had I been left with the impression that the mandolin was his main and distinctive instrument, and why is he presented in the advert primarily as a pianist?
Is Fat Jimmy the ultra-elegant gentleman in the tailcoat?
Is that what fat people were like in those difficult years? !!! …
(As we say today, “blond”, and, if the person is Greek, we mean “not entirely pitch-black”.)
Ah, the maître d’, right. Head waiter, I think?
I don’t think I’ve ever come across such a thing, especially not with it actually being called that. I only know it from books. They may still exist nowadays, but they don’t tell us that (I’ve never heard anyone say, for example, “Ask the maître d’hôtel”), so I hastily assumed that the maître d’ was the boss—in other words, Jimmy.
I should add, of course, that based on the well-known live album “Tsitsanis and Ninou: One Night at Fat Jimmy’s”, where they even make a few teasing remarks about the “buffet man”, I had imagined the classic pot-bellied, moustachioed man with a grubby white apron and a rag draped over his arm, in a dark and dubious semi-basement tavern, with no tailcoated maîtres d’.
But a picture is worth a thousand words…
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Because others may have had the same opinion as you …!
In the first one, as it was in '55, around the time of Ninou and Tsitsanis’s recording.
In the last one, as it was in '63.
All the photographs are from films made at that time.
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20.05.1889, newspaper Evdomas
From the memoirs of Alexandros Kriezis, a reference to Androutsos concerning bouzoukis and other instruments.
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Feature on the hidden world of Piraeus, with a reference to Giorgos Batis.
ATHINAIKI newspaper, 04.04.1956, p. 5
Some references to Petros Kyriakos
NEWSPAPER: ELLINIKI ORA, 28.02.1968
NEWSPAPER: I THEATRIKI, 01.06.1971
A valuable document of an early police ban on urban folk music within the territorial jurisdiction of Lesbos (PROINI, 23/12/1936)
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It looks as though I’m replying to Stavros, but it’s for Anthimos. I don’t know how this happens, since I clicked directly below Anthimos’s post?
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Here are several, Mr Spyro:
13/2/1954
15/2/1954
16/2/1954
17/2/1954
18/2/1954
19/2/1954
20/2/1954
https://digitallibrary.parliament.gr/newspapers/items/0e2bf19f-4fac-482b-8d6c-16412453ac8a
22/2/1954
23/2/1954
24/2/1954
https://digitallibrary.parliament.gr/newspapers/items/c1750d40-284a-4023-88c0-4bbb50fdef91
25/2/1954
https://digitallibrary.parliament.gr/newspapers/items/56305128-baff-4690-a634-a78487b51030
26/2/1954
https://digitallibrary.parliament.gr/newspapers/items/04af553d-c477-44f4-bc4c-fc2ddb7849b4
27/2/1954
https://digitallibrary.parliament.gr/newspapers/items/ee0b0280-741e-47f6-ac49-422a6d46cb98
1/3/1954
2/3/1954
https://digitallibrary.parliament.gr/newspapers/items/787ae942-c406-4774-ae52-dcf22839524c
3/3/1954
https://digitallibrary.parliament.gr/newspapers/items/65aadbcc-7739-4c0f-a740-18dc96d49b45
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Do you think we’ll find the right groove? 