you know we often say people dont generally change from one occupation to a completely different one ? well I have been reading The Cockney Ancestor, and one of the articles says a family of Silk Weavers, in London switched to Piano Making as there were so many Jewish Tailors.
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No, I think you have misunderstood, Val.
Harry emigrated to NZ. He was presumably a Jewish tailor and he emigrated because there were too many tailors in the UK.
The silk weaver family stayed in the UK and became piano makers when the silk weaving industry failed. This isn,t actually as strange as it sounds because I expect what they did was fit piano mechanisms into piano cabinets which they either made themselves or bought in. In our very own famous FTF Jewish family, lol, there were lots of cabinet makers. Piano making wasn't a great skill and they may have worked for an employer anyway.
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