There was an aristocrat (whose name I forget) who lived in 19th C. Wales and wanted her staff to wear traditional costume and live in general in an old-fashioned way. Her employees, however, wanted to go with the modern instrument - the piano. When the boss came for a visit, they threw the laundry over the piano to hide it.

I'm sure, however, that they played familiar (traditional) tunes on those pianos as well as the music that was being composed at the time.