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@datarama That mode of relating to music — a personal, quasi-private pursuit, centered on the home, and primarily for the player — was so pervasive in the piano’s history that there were once many hundreds of piano manufacturers in the US alone. “The big-screen TV of the 19th century,” I’ve heard it called. And the early 20th! It was the Great Depression that did it in — and radio to some extent, and to larger extent shifting values & economics post-war.