WAV, There is a scene in Flora Thompson's Lark Rise to Candleford (not sure if it's in the tv series) where a local lad, returning from serving in the army, brings with him a melodeon. He begins to play for a gathering crowd, and they begin to dance to the tunes he's playing, well guess what, according to Flora Thompson, all the tune's played were the "popular songs and tunes of the day", music hall included, no sign of the Ye Olde Merry England dance tunes that seem to exist no where else except in you head Charlotte R
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