His duties entailed accompanying the amateur music-making of the king and queen, teaching the harpsichord to the royal family, and organizing the queen's chamber-music concerts.

She is not the only secretary of state to pursue amateur music-making.

Of course, amateur music-making has been around as long as classical music.

Having evolved with changing times - specifically, a decline in amateur music-making and a concern to emulate performance practices of earlier eras - it now numbers 135.

As you can imagine, some extremely bad amateur music-making has also been filmed, in peaceful territories.

With the instrument's distinctive, shimmering sound, the mandolin orchestra was a fixture of amateur music-making across the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

In fact, things were so bad that amateur music-making was threatened, something that could lead indirectly to the rampant sissification of the entire country.

They are all part of the larger universe of amateur classical music-making, which includes choruses.

The bassoon belonged to Haskell Edelstein, a tax lawyer and fanatic of amateur music-making.

In earlier times amateur music-making flourished even in middle-class households: if you wanted music in your daily life you had to make it yourself.