Music by Telephone

We have simply carried the idea of labor saving by cooperation into our musical service as into everything else. There are a number of music rooms in the city, perfectly adapted acoustically to the different sorts of music. These halls are connected by telephone with all the houses of the city whose people care to pay the small fee, and there are none, you may be sure, who do not.

Edith Leete Looking Backward: 2000–1887 (1888) by Edward Bellamy

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Context: Edith explains how live music is piped into every home around the clock.

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Source: Chapter 11

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