I thought I might bring up one of the famous questions of that night:

What did the band play before the ship sank?

Was it "Nearer my God to Thee", "Autumn", the "Waltz of Autumn", or something else.

I have heard (I cannot remember where) that band leader Wallice Hartley once stated that if he was going to die at sea, he would have played "Nearer my God to Thee". That has always stood in my mind as being good support to that particular song if that information was indeed true.

However, Harold Bride remembered hearing a song called "Autumn" being played as the forward boatdeck was submerging.

Walter Lord stated that it would be good to rely on Bride's story, because, being a marconi operator and listining to morse code, he would be trained to hear details.

Was his hearing more reliable when dealing with the final music question?

What does everyone else think?