I stupidly failed to acknowledge that when Jim says 'here' he means Ireland. Ireland, as usual, is the exception to every rule, but fit-ups were presumably as common and made for the same reasons as elsewhere. But I should, in this connection, have mentioned travelling booth theatres, which were active in Ireland (are they still?) decades after the last was seen in England. Their effect on song transmission was, I suspect, not dissimilar to that of the circuit theatres. But I am now venturing too far outside my comfort zone!
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