Over the last months I developed a fascination for the street musicians called “One man band”. They’re a very curious social phenomenon that can be found in almost every country. When I started to pay attention to them a lot of questions came to my mind. The first one was “Why do they do it?”. Seriously, what’s the point of playing ten instruments at the same time? It seems a very hard to do task and it surely requires a lot of practice. They don’t sound very good (with very few exceptions) and of course, nobody likes them, most people on the street are  always trying to avoid them. You may try to pretend that they are not there, but it’s impossible not to notice them.
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