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This account raises a fascinating - absolutely - matter of fact as to live music in pubs, mostly piano renditions, during the 1800s and perhaps (widespread) to WW II.
The Cockneys were famous for the sing along in the pub.
It appears that music, such as bands and choirs, played a minor role in community life in Birmingham. Most pubs were likely [?] equipped with an upright piano. Indeed many thousands of homes were appointed with an upright piano.
(There was a chap based, actually born and reared, in Birmingham who exported one million upright pianos to the US by c. 1976. These he got from the slum clearance operation. I cite this phenomenon as an index germane. I posted it on VB FORUM [RIP]. And it is something for Prf Dr Carl Chinn's crew to tackle.)
There were many music halls in the city, mostly inner (of course) and they were well patronized. The incredible brutalization of WW II, the intverning immiseration of the slump and depression to WW II effectively pulverized an immense breadth and depth of heritage in general.
The cabal during the 50s and 60s in government annihilated the bulk of what was left.
I think Rod Birch related one of his relatives made a living as a full time pub singer. That surely took a great deal of stamina! Surely he was not alone in Birmingham? Were there women such also? Maybe couples?
Obviously people worked terribly long arduous hours and were not as able as the affluent upper middle economic class to recreation.
I seldom recall emanation of singing or musical instrumentality during all the hundred of miles I've peregrinated in the city.
What happened? Or did much happen in the first place?
This account raises a fascinating - absolutely - matter of fact as to live music in pubs, mostly piano renditions, during the 1800s and perhaps (widespread) to WW II.
The Cockneys were famous for the sing along in the pub.
It appears that music, such as bands and choirs, played a minor role in community life in Birmingham. Most pubs were likely [?] equipped with an upright piano. Indeed many thousands of homes were appointed with an upright piano.
(There was a chap based, actually born and reared, in Birmingham who exported one million upright pianos to the US by c. 1976. These he got from the slum clearance operation. I cite this phenomenon as an index germane. I posted it on VB FORUM [RIP]. And it is something for Prf Dr Carl Chinn's crew to tackle.)
There were many music halls in the city, mostly inner (of course) and they were well patronized. The incredible brutalization of WW II, the intverning immiseration of the slump and depression to WW II effectively pulverized an immense breadth and depth of heritage in general.
The cabal during the 50s and 60s in government annihilated the bulk of what was left.
I think Rod Birch related one of his relatives made a living as a full time pub singer. That surely took a great deal of stamina! Surely he was not alone in Birmingham? Were there women such also? Maybe couples?
Obviously people worked terribly long arduous hours and were not as able as the affluent upper middle economic class to recreation.
I seldom recall emanation of singing or musical instrumentality during all the hundred of miles I've peregrinated in the city.
What happened? Or did much happen in the first place?