Europe history: Street entertainers
'one-person-band'
One person bands using at least a drum and pandean pipes (pan-pipes). | |||||
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Signor Rivolta worked as a one-person-band for at least 16 years from January 1809 to November 1925. |
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1821 ‘the festival of the tutelar Saint of Scotland was celebrated at the London Tavern’![]() |
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“Uncle George Wiley, 90 year old hermit of Sutton, N.H. who plays his old organ, harmonica, bass drum and phonograph all at the same time and his services are in great demand when snap dance music is wanted on a Saturday night.” |
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1849 “…Several old acquaintances who once waked the echoes of the quiet streets have gradually departed. First and foremost, we miss the ingenious professor who shook the hat of Chinese bells, beat the drum and cymbals with his knees, and played the mouth-organ, all at once. He is gone, and albeit he must have left his apparatus behind him, no one has supplied his place…” Sketches of London Life and Character, by Albert Smith et. al., [1849] - Music in the Streets |
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1850's - 60's "...Another street performer was a foreigner who played, or made a noise on, London and Londoners in the Eighteen-Fifties and Sixties, by Alfred Rosling Bennett, 1924 - Chapter 6 - Street Entertainers |
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