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We are using the photgraphic record as a indicator of popuarity or at least the relative number of the instruments. We are not entirely sure that this is conclusive evidence. For example, what about the children who took piano. They could not very well bring their piano to the studio. A reader writes, "You mention that one sees many more protraits of children holding violins rather than with other instruments. The influx of European immigrants may havebeen a factor affectiving instrumental music in the late-19th ad early 20th centuruies. I am wondering if this was for photographic reasons rather than the popularity of the instrument. It must be much easier to pose a child holding a violin that seated at a piano, with all the furniture moving involved. Wind instruments with the light reflecting of the brass too might have been a problem." We rather agree, about the piano, we are much less sure about brass instruments. There may, however, have been other complications. And there variations over time. As indoor photgraphy became more common, we suspect that the relative appearance of instruments as a valid indicator was much more common.
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