We now have a massive collection of country dance / social dance music from the last 3 or 4 hundred years.

For most of this time the music would have been played acoustically ie no amplification.

1. How big would bands need to be?
2. What instruments would they have?
3. What size rooms did they play in?
4. Is anybody playing without amplification nowadays?

Answers on a postcard please

L in C