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I really doubt the first panel was representative of a random "evening at home" for most people, even in the 1900s.
What do you think they did in the evenings?
Reading. There are plenty of complaints from ever since the printing press about people using books to ignore each other. It wasn't really all that different from tv or phones. I don't think first panel family is older than mass production of novels.
Also not everyone had a fucking piano
Yeah, I was going to say, unless there was a mysterious time period when grand pianos were a product of mass consumption, first panel is like the 0.01%.
And even then. I'm sure some people played music in the evening (including more accessible instruments). More than today, sure, maybe. Some might sing once in a while to, why not.
The full-on family choir around an instrument every evening, as a thing that happened widely, is where I'm calling bullshit.
But you don't need music to sing
For many families, singing was nightly event. At least several times weekly.
Lots of families had only a few books and sometimes access to libraries.
But yeah