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Not a home owners association, but worse: a British parish council.I used to work for British Telecom.At one point BT had 92,000 phone boxes but as growing numbers of people got mobile phones increasing numbers of these phone boxes became uneconomic year by year - the costs of maintaining the boxes stayed the same but usage and revenues fell steadily. There was a strong business case for closing and removing many boxes and that’s what any ordinary business would do.But BT is a regulated business and the regulator (Ofcom) said that BT had to consult with the local authorities before removing a phone box and could not do so if the local authority objected. The local authorities had absolutely no incentive to agree to a phone box being removed and so frequently objected on spurious grounds.More than one objection claimed that the phone box had to stay because it was used by people to shelter from the rain while waiting for a bus (you might think that the council should have tried to provide a bus shelter).But the all-time winner was one parish council that objected on the grounds that the light from the phone box helped people to read announcements on the parish notice board that was next to the phone box. And that phone box had to be kept in service.PS: BT could appeal against an objection but the appeal process was very slow, clunky and administratively expensive.

Because 1) It’s not in the liturgical tradition. 2) The music is primarily sung prayer. It may evoque a mood, but that is not it’s main purpose. It’s main purpose is bring the listener into participatory prayer. Although you can find multipart modern settings, traditionally, it is monophonic, based on 8 scalar combinations (Byzantine chant) It is primarily a music form out of monastic use, adapted by shortening services for parish use. All Orthodox services use the same words in all nations. Serbian chant, Greek chant, Bulgarian chant, Antochian chant, are all the same words and basic melodies, with a little bit of local variation, whether sung in Greek, Arabic, Slavonic, or English, Orthodox Parish services are abbreviated monastic services. The Orthodox monastic services are long, with detailed theology in the wording or prayer. They are so complex it is only in a larger monastery they can do all of the services. The music goes particularly with a certain part of the service, so the experienced listener is brought immediately into the prayer, recalling the words and melodies as he prays. Russian Church music is based on the same format, but excepting Valaam and Kievian chant, has been adapted to 4 part use due to Czar’s preferences. It still does the same thing however, for the listener, carrying them into the prayer that is being sung. I think musical instruments would just distract the listener from the prayer connection being. Note it doesn’t have rhyming melodies either. For instance, the Troparia of Pascha (Festal song of Easter) “Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and upon those in the tombs bestroying life”. It is sung by all together, over and over at Pascha, a theology lesson, a prayer, and song carried in the heart, all in one.