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There is no way to tell the difference in a subway station, even for an instrument as loud as a violin. Moreover, no one goes to the subway to listen to music.
by kansface 13y ago
There is no way to tell the difference in a subway station, even for an instrument as loud as a violin. Moreover, no one goes to the subway to listen to music.
- sanoli 13y agoIf you're into this kind of music, you could tell, sure. He begin playing one of the hardest to master solo violin pieces of the repertoire. If I saw someone playing Bach's Chaconne on the street, I'd stop right away. There's no way street musicians would be able to play it like he did. Well, about a thousand people passed by, and seven stopped to listen. 0.7% of the sample isn't that bad. Plus, he made 50 bucks in less than an hour.
- rtkwe 13y agoYeah that's the qualm I've always had with that 'experiment' in a subway you're on your way to do something else, usually on a time crunch. Add on the noise and the fact that most people couldn't tell an amazing concert level performer from a simply good performer and the result is foregone.
- habosa 13y agoI'm not saying I would have stopped, because I don't often, but I could tell. I have neighbors who are very into this sort of thing and from the few hours of exposure I've gotten through them, I would have known immediately that this was no average performance. Also a violin as expensive as the one he was playing sounds pretty great in any environment.