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moonbeam wrote:Which is the worst beggar playing a musical instrument? Or perhaps which beggar tries to play a musical instrument the worst? There are quite a few.
jodieohdoh wrote:Bloody beggars, eh? Why don't they get a proper job and stop making the place look untidy and bothering the strivers as they're busy doing their striving.
moonbeam wrote:A guy at Clydebank who plays a solid violin "thing" with a brass horn attached.
Doorstop wrote:St Enoch Square last night .. a bloke playing a trumpet with a bow.
trumpet bow by Ross Allan, on Flickr
And this was before I started drinking.
moonbeam wrote:He is never in tune.
banjo wrote:same instrument different guy in clydebank.three tunes played over and over for hours on end.nae offence to the bloke but it is a bloody insufferable noise.
Lucky Poet wrote:From the article: "It is generally used sparsely as the grating tone can irritate after a while." QED
banjo wrote:same instrument different guy in clydebank.three tunes played over and over for hours on end.nae offence to the bloke but it is a bloody insufferable noise.
puddlesplasher wrote:banjo wrote:same instrument different guy in clydebank.three tunes played over and over for hours on end.nae offence to the bloke but it is a bloody insufferable noise.
Would you be old enough to remember Jaimsey "Boy" Barr who used to jump on and off the buses through the Clydebank to City centre route, particularly the number 63 and 64. I always remember him getting on around Yoker and believe he stayed in Langholm St (now Speirshall Terrace) He must have been around 20 year old then so if hes still around could be about 60.
He was of limited intelligence and always played his "mouthie" out of tune whilst begging for a couple of pence. This must have been around an easy 40 years ago but hey, the guy was a pest but he always gave a tune to anyone that shouted, "Hey Jaimsey, gimme a wee tune".
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