Who wouldn’t love Harvard Square? Although too many sights there are troubling, the square also offers a nonstop showcase of wonders. It’s kind of a mirror of human experience.
The last time I was in Harvard Square, I was meeting Minnesota friends for dinner. I ended up arriving at Harvest restaurant a few minutes after them because I simply had to stop and listen to this musician-inventor play his bellowphone.
From Len Solomon’s About page: “Classically trained musician, inventor, and one-man-orchestra Len Solomon performs a unique recital of music and comedy.
“The one-hour show features your favorite symphonic compositions, arranged for Dog Whistles and Bicycle Horn, plus a chromatic pipe organ devised from plumbing parts and coat-hanger wire, and of course, the ingenious Majestic Bellowphone: a musical masterpiece of Medieval technology! …
“Len majored in guitar and early music at Antioch College, and followed that with two years of playing guitar in a country-rock band in Idaho. He finally gave up the glory of playing for drunkards in bars five nights a week, and went to work for 10 years as a professional cabinetmaker in the Boston area. In 1983, in his Cambridge basement, Len built the Majestic Bellowphone, and he took it to the streets along with his 5-ball juggling routine, taking his place among the ranks of classic Harvard Square street acts.”
Click to hear the callioforte and bellowphone.
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What a cool instrument and what a cool place!
Not sure how the friends from Minnesota felt about seeing so many young, homeless addicts sitting on the sidewalk when we took an after-dinner stroll. They didn’t comment. “Minnesota Nice.” It sure is sad, though.
Yes that is sad
What an instrument! This takes me back to Grafton Street in Dublin, watching another busker play a cobbled together instrument to a huge crowd!
And I recall a guy in the sixties who was a one-man band, Jesse Fuller: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM62iL_Gh2g