Quoting Will Wu:
 
>    And speaking of  "wherehouses", I understand  that many a  "sportin'
>house" around the  turn of the  century employed piano  players...
 
MY RECOLLECTION IS THAT
 
   No less a figure than Johannes Brahms got his start playing piano in
a "house of ill repute", (was it in Hamburg?). I have heard speculation
that that early experience affected his approach to sex the rest of his
life.
                           Glenn
 
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