In the whole history of the sea, there is little to equal the wonderful behavior of these humble players. - Steve Turner

No praise could be sufficient for those courageous musicians whom we left behind. They were heroes to a man.

“If any glory at all attaches to the awful tragedy of the sea about which the world is still talking, it circles round the heads of these heroic bandsmen who played the mighty vessel to its doom

By the twentieth of April, the story was widely accepted and was viewed as one of the most heartening acts of bravery in the whole tragedy.