Figure 1.--This English student orchestra, we believe in 1948, looks to be made up from three different schools. There looks to be students from a girls school and two different boys' schools. Apparently it was located at Melton.

Some schools are not large enough to have large orchestras. This was especially true of primary schools. Primary schools generally are relativeky small. Smaller secndary schools also had trouble forming orchestras. Many larger schools, especially secondary schools, however, did have them. Often these were schools located in large cities. Some schools dealt with the size problem by creating a community orchestras out of student musicians from several schools. This was complicated by the transportation required. This is approach is often easy to tell because of the uniforms involved. This English student orchestra, we believe in 1948, looks to be made up from three different schools (figure 1). There looks to be students from a girls school and two different boys' schools.

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