TV came into the world a few years after I was born. But I still remember when every house I visited as a child had a piano in it, and at least two or three people in the house could and did play it. Lots more amateur singing -- and family evenings, as you suggest.
I remember reading, in my quest to "understand" the "French", about 50 years in a tiny village the author had a vacay home in. It was tiny and old, perhaps walled, and on a cliff or pinnacle, very cohesive but isolated. TV arrived in 1963, he wrote, and all daily communal life disappeared over night. Cafe, petanque, evening promenade, amateur music, debating societies, lectures. Practices of 50,000 years disparu. I'm sure it was the same everywhere else, if less apprehensible.