Extract from the writings of Charles Babbage, (Grandfather of computing) in 1864 - is there any earlier written ancestry to our being pilloried ?
Street Nuisances
During the last ten years, the amount of street music has so greatly
increased that it has now~become a positive nuisance to a very considerable
portion of the inhabitants of London. It robs the industrious of time; it
annoys the musical man by its intolerable badness; it irritates the invalid;
deprives the patient, who at great inconvenience has visited London for
the best medical advice, of that repose which, under such circumstances,
is essential for his recovery, and it destroys the time and energy of all
the intellectual classes of society by its continual interruptions of their
pursuits.
Instruments of torture permitted by the Government to be in daily
and nightly use in the streets of London:
Organs
Brass bands
Fiddlers
Harps
Harpsichords
Hurdy-gurdies
Flageolets
Drums
Bagpipes
Accordians
Halfpenny whistles
Tom-toms
Trumpets
Shouting out object for sale
Religious canting
Psalm - singing
I have very frequently been disturbed by such music after twelve
o'clock at night. Upon one occasion, a brass band played, with but few
and short intermissions, for five hours.
