OT: I cannot comment directly on this, but it reminds me of a lot of similar events in my on background. The mother of a Universty friend was the sister of the soprano Elsie Morrison, who married Rafael Kubelik. And in my own immediate tree, there was a woman pianist, who was presented with a piano by the Duchess of her own country. In the Bendigo region, she had been a pianist at a concert given by a noted violinist (but as a separate act. My previous researcher said that when her Australian husband walked into a dam on the property and threatened to drown himself unless his wife sold her piano to buy more booze, The researcher's mother, who was present, took up a yard broom and started pushing him further in. He pleaded with her to stop, but she replied that she was doing exactly what he wanted, since selling the piano was out of the question! The people I have referred to, are on Wikitree.
