Mary and Geraldine Peppin (born 30 December 1912) were identical twin sisters, and performers in a classical piano duo active in the UK from the 1930s until the 1960s.
The twins were born in Marston Magna, Somerset[1] where their father, the Reverend Gilbert Peppin, was the vicar and a folk song collector.
[4] The twins subsequently continued lessons with Mabel Lander, a pupil of Leschetizky and much later piano tutor to the young Princess Elizabeth.
[8] Geraldine met the poet Randall Swingler in 1931 and married him on 17 April 1933 at St Mary Magdalene's Church, Munster Square.
[13] In his book Churchill's Spy Files, Nigel West reports that the Peppins' flat in Islington (at 9b Canonbury Square) was a centre for clandestine communist activity during the war and was under surveillance.
Piano duos contemporary with the Peppin Sisters included Rose and Ottilie Sutro, Bartlett and Robertson, Doris Arnold and Harry Pepper, Rawicz and Landauer, Phyllis Sellick & Cyril Smith, and Joan and Valerie Trimble.