I remember my mother used to go around the house singing or reciting. Her mother seemed to do the same when we were visiting - music hall mostly, and her sisters also sang quite a lot. There were lots of books with songs, carols and other music in the house - they had a piano.
When my mother was a girl the house had gas light only on the ground floor and once a week a box of candles was bought and given out, one each and then the children would compete at setting poems to tunes and singing them - the best ones got one of the left over candles.
They used to go to a local church and sing as the guests arrived for weddings - they had small wicker baskets lined with white satin and decorated with ribbons to collect contributions as the guests arrived.
One auntie went on singing at all my cousins weddings, much to their embarrassment.
The odd ones out were the ones who didn't sing.