An Austrian ladies orchestra in a Dutch car

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Sometimes you come across one of these mysterious combinations like in this case: the Austrian ladies-orchestra 'Apollo', directed by a man with the short but almost unpronounceable name of Franz Pleil, seated and standing in a car of respectable Dutch origin: a ca 1906 Spyker. Looking more closely at the 'chauffeuse' it is doubtful if she would have been capable of driving this car to the next performance. Anyway, her co-driver is cheering her up with some merry sounds from a piccolo!

Possibly we see here a combined publicity photo, while being in Amsterdam for a performance. Some research revealed that this type of ladies-orchestras playing Bohemian music were large in number during the first decades of the previous century and that they travelled all over Europe, even into Turkey. And the aim was not only 'the Muse': during the concert breaks they often had to intermingle with the public and entertain them, and some of them (without doubt the prettiest ones) could have the luck of finding a partner for life ...

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