Classical accordion
Video • Thursday, 9th July, 2009
Since moving jobs in 2008, I often end up going into Bern city centre at lunchtime, a five minute tram ride (or fifteen minute walk during my current fitness drive). Once there, with errands to look in the sections of camera shops containing second-hand cameras, I often walk back through the main shopping area of Marktgasse. The street is an excellent place to spend a lunchtime, with shops catering to tastes from clothes to music, from cameras to jewellery and watches. I often get a sandwich or takeaway bite to eat from one of the stalls set up beneath the old, historic archways. If I’m not in a hurry, I eat while watching the endless stream of passers-by hurrying to and fro; trying to get their own tasks done whilst dodging the trams and buses which shuttle across the city centre. Today, I didn’t stop for food but for a street musician. A lone man sat on a little fold-away stool beneath the arches, out of the way of people hurrying past, and played classical music wonderfully on an unaccompanied accordion. After filming a few minutes of the wonderful music, accompanied perfectly by the scuttling people around, I dropped a compliment and healthy tip into his collection plate and headed back to the office.
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July 10th, 2009 at 10:37 am
The accordian normally grates on my nerves but this use of one is amazing. I like Bach and this is a wonderful way to listen to him (Tocata and Fugue if I’m not mistaken). Could you have not giot closer so we can see the player? I also like Bern of course, don’t get down there often enough. Oh! no applause at the end?
July 10th, 2009 at 10:39 am
No; the guy was playing next to me and I didn’t want to show him as the street scene was much more interesting!