Interesting stuff, Christopher! I'll look at this more carefully.
Burney's significant date of publication (1789) reminds me of another quotation, this time from Oscar Wilde's character, Lady Bracknall:
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution. And I presume you know what that unfortunate movement led to?
To answer her question, it didn't do a lot of good for smallpipes playing in 18C France. You wouldn't have been seen dead with a musette.
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