There was once a dentist who used to employ a band. No, it was not that he liked music: it was because he found it useful in his business.
This dentist was a well-known London character, and he used to go around the various districts extracting teeth at sixpence a time. Anaesthetics were not yet discovered, and altogether this dentist's methods were crude and painful for his victims. It is easy to see that the shrieks of the "patients" were not helpful to business, and so the dentist engaged a band. He would set up his booth in the market place with the band alongside it. The bandmaster's job was quite simple: the more the dentist's victims yelled, the louder the band must play. Ouch!! :-O
That says something of the history of open-air music in England... Was its real (if humble) origin as a blanket for the yells of farewell to departing teeth??
he!he!he! :-)
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