Just a line to say we have got away all right. Wallace Hartley, on board Titanic, Wednesday : Titanic’s mail was going to be taken off in Queensland at around noon, but as his performance schedule started at 10:00am he needed to deposit his letter in the slot before his busy day began.* He wanted his parents to know he expected to have a good and lucrative trip. In any case, Hartley took time in the morning to post a letter he had written the day before to his parents at home in England. Which one would they have chosen for rehearsal? With the day’s music chosen, the musicians likely organized their sheets so transitions between set numbers would be smooth.ĭid the quintet use the early morning to rehearse the day’s music? This is a good question because their music was arranged for piano and they would have needed to rehearse with one. Although passengers often made requests, it was his job as bandleader to have numbers chosen ahead of time in the absence of requests, or at least a few numbers to get them started before a crowd gathered. Wallace Hartley, bandleader of the quintet, would have worked a little in the morning on the day’s set list. While the rest of E Deck’s Second Class passengers shared bathroom facilities, it appears as though the musicians, pursers and clerks had private facilities set aside. At the end of the private hall was the cabin which had six berths, five used on this voyage for the quintet. This was big enough to store all the stringed instruments: violins, viola, cello and double bass. Just inside the door of the accommodation was a small hall with a door to the instrument closet to one side. The reason it was unnumbered was because it was specially designed for musicians, and not to be available for other passengers. After breakfast the five returned to their cabin.
Outside the porthole all was calm and clear.
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Today Titanic was en route to Queenstown, Ireland, and it was the first full performance day. Others were simply making a living on the sea. One had taken the job for passage to New York on a personal matter. 250654, and together they comprised the eight musicians who formed Titanic’s two bands. The day before, these five men had boarded Titanic in Southampton with three others, all on ticket No. The musicians’ cabin was in Second Class because officially they sailed as Second Class passengers. The pursers and clerks were berthed in the next cabin, and beyond them, Second Class passengers. On the morning of April 11, 1912, five musicians woke up together in an unnumbered cabin at the end of a Second Class corridor on Titanic‘s E Deck.
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