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a streetviolinist in the train in Spain

August 7, 2007 at 10:29 PM

This holiday I was with a fiend in Spain, Portugal and south-France for a holiday. The day before I have bought a DIGITAL CAMERA!! During that holiday I made photo's of all violins I saw. But I also saw a guitarist on the strret playing for money and a accordeonist, but also a VIOLINIST in the train near Barcelona in Spain. I made 2 photo's and gave him money afterwards. The played an unknown Irishlike tune and Mozart Turkish march. With my digi camera I also could make films with sound. I forget that to make of this unique moment, SILLY. All photo's were 2,2 Mbite. I could compress them with adobe professional and than save them as jpg-file again, but they are still too big.
Here my first digital photo's on my blog:


From Ruth Kuefler
Posted on August 8, 2007 at 2:00 AM
A violinist on a train? Neat! Did any of the passengers seem to mind, or did they enjoy it?
From Pauline Lerner
Posted on August 8, 2007 at 4:26 AM
Your writing and your photos are interesting. I never would have thought of a violinist on a train. Did people give him any money?
From Laurie Niles
Posted on August 8, 2007 at 5:26 AM
Congrats on your camera, Bram!
From Bram Heemskerk
Posted on August 8, 2007 at 7:45 AM
Most people were not interested in this unasked gypsylike artist in the train (as you can see on the photo's, most people don't look to the violinist, but somethingelse), just like with the unasked guitarist or an unasked accordionist, but some give some money. The violinist nearly touched with his bow the upperbar above in the train to maintain your balance and just like the guitarist or accordionist after playing his 2 numbers of 5 minutes and opening and going around with his purse, he went to the next waggon for the same ritual.

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