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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | ...DC Metro Station on a cold January morning in 2007...
...The man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes...
...The man collected a total of $32...
Okay, It was cold. People were on there way to work. And he made $32 in less than an Hour!
[I have been overjoyed to make $16 in two-and-a-half hours]
I do know guitarists who have made $60 in an hour, but they are not standing where people are rushing by.
They stand where people are waiting for trains and buses, so the have time to listen and time to donate.
If you stand at the bottom of the stairs when people rush by, what do you expect.
And I will remind y'all, $40 an hour is nothing to sneer at. |
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Location: Omaha, NE | I go back to the notion that this experiment shows a lack of respect for street musicians.
There is a palpable "casting pearls before swine" feel to this, as if somehow this experiment exposes a defect in the modern culture.
I believe that it does, but the indictment is precisely the opposite of what the experiment's crafter's intended. Instead of revealing that the masses are hopelessly unsophisticated, it revealed that those who crafted this experiment are hopelessly out of touch with the daily lives of those same masses. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | My take on this experiment is that it is really not about street musicians. It is more basic than that. I think it demonstrates that if we aren't looking for something of value in an environment that doesn't typically contain it at a time when it isn't likely to be there, then even if it is there, we may be unable to recognize and appreciate it. The "it" here is a world class virtuoso being mistaken for a street musician, but it could be just about anything else as well, like a rare guitar hanging in a pawn shop or laying on some apartment dweller's Saturday morning yard sale blanket. |
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Location: New Hampsha | Originally posted by Old Man Arthur:
...DC Metro Station on a cold January morning in 2007...
I wonder if the finish on his violin cracked? |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Just keep in mind, he didn't start out there!  |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
My take on this experiment is that it is really not about street musicians. It is more basic than that. I think it demonstrates that if we aren't looking for something of value in an environment that doesn't typically contain it at a time when it isn't likely to be there, then even if it is there, we may be unable to recognize and appreciate it. The "it" here is a world class virtuoso being mistaken for a street musician, but it could be just about anything else as well, like a rare guitar hanging in a pawn shop or laying on some apartment dweller's Saturday morning yard sale blanket. IMHO: on the nose. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | The "it" here is a world class virtuoso being mistaken for a street musician If "it" walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck... |
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Perception versus reality . . .
