Even the piano. I’m a pianist from a long line of them, and my ancestors were all poor as fuck farmers. My grandmother even played in regional competitions at a time when they still had no electricity. Life was quite different back then.
Absolutely. I did not intend to paint an over simplistic picture of who could play what. Just thought that those two instruments readily evoked a past where people often even took musical instruments wherever they traveled and occupied themselves with music on the road, on work breaks et cetera. Like you say, it was a different time. And music and dance are extremely universal methods of expressing yourselves and fostering community.
I don’t think you over simplified it at all. The families even poorer than mine wouldn’t have had a piano, but instead something inexpensive, like you suggested. A lot of folk music originates from poor communities, which required them to have instruments of some kind.
What, like, you don’t believe in the fiddle or the harmonica?
Even the piano. I’m a pianist from a long line of them, and my ancestors were all poor as fuck farmers. My grandmother even played in regional competitions at a time when they still had no electricity. Life was quite different back then.
Absolutely. I did not intend to paint an over simplistic picture of who could play what. Just thought that those two instruments readily evoked a past where people often even took musical instruments wherever they traveled and occupied themselves with music on the road, on work breaks et cetera. Like you say, it was a different time. And music and dance are extremely universal methods of expressing yourselves and fostering community.
I don’t think you over simplified it at all. The families even poorer than mine wouldn’t have had a piano, but instead something inexpensive, like you suggested. A lot of folk music originates from poor communities, which required them to have instruments of some kind.