Acrobatic Cello Playing

French musician Maurice Baquet combined cello playing with an acrobatics routine. Images from VU magazine, 1938.

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Posted By: Alex - Tue Sep 03, 2013
Category: Music | 1930s

Comments

Wow, that's different. Bet he jumped on the bed as a kid.

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 09/03/13 at 08:58 AM

Again, I think of Victor Borge's joke:

Q: What's the difference between a violin and a viola?

A: A viola burns longer.

I'm sure that a cello burns even longer.

Posted by KDP on 09/03/13 at 09:41 AM

Cellos are the base-fiddle of the stringed quartet and jumping around while sawing out odd notes hear and there couldn't hurt the performance too much.

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 09/03/13 at 10:15 AM

Look at the fingers on his left hand. He's not playing the cello - he's strangling it.

Posted by tadchem on 09/03/13 at 01:41 PM

R.I.P.

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 09/03/13 at 01:57 PM

Follow the bouncing cellist! :lol: :coolsmile:

Posted by Tyrusguy on 09/03/13 at 05:55 PM

If you google Baquet, you find that the great photographer Robert Doisneau took a lot of photos of him. Maybe this was some of Doisneau's early work.

Posted by Harvey on 09/04/13 at 10:50 PM

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