books.google.co.uk - As the "social anchor" in middle-class homes of the 19th century, the piano was simultaneously an elegant piece of drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity and a mean of introducing the young to music and entertaining their elders. In the admirably balanced and leisurely account of the...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Men_Women_and_Pianos.html?id=s5FoSOhLnAYC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareMen, Women, and Pianos