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Here is a video of Joshua Bell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Bell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Bell) playing a 3.5 million dollar violin in the
by robertelder 10y ago
Here is a video of Joshua Bell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Bell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Bell) playing a 3.5 million dollar violin in the subway for 45 minutes and making $32:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnOPu0_YWhw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnOPu0_YWhw
- coldtea 10y agoWell, obviously it doesn't matter how expensive your violin is, or how good you are at your music genre -- it's about how popular the genre/tune is, and when busking, how likable you are (plus, putting on a good entertaining show, with emphasis on the "show" part, e.g. not subtle classical skills).
- rhizome 10y agoAnd location.
- coldtea 10y agoYeah. He would have faired better in some Vienna subway station around Christmas time...
- personjerry 10y agoA good example of the value of marketing, I believe.
- leonroy 10y agoWhen I was a kid (early 90s) learning to play the violin those Strads cost under a million. Since then their price has rocketed just like every other tangible which has become a hotly contested investment asset. It's sad because it makes these things less and less likely to get played and more likely to end up in a vault. Good to see at least a handful of them in use out there.
- pimlottc 10y agoThere's a list of all known Stradivarius instruments on Wikipedia and it's actually nice to see that quite a good number of them are made available to musicians via loan programs or specific bequests: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stradivarius_instruments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stradivarius_instrumen...
- stouset 10y agoStringed musical instruments also typically increase in value as they are routinely played. A trained musician, as I understand it, can readily identify an instrument that has lain idle.