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COFFEE BREAK | Viola Jokes: 10 Hours of Walking Through NYC As a Violist

10 Hours Of Walking In NYC As A Violist (Photo: Submediant)

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By now you’ve probably seen the 10 Hours of Walking in New York City as a Woman video that went viral in 2014. It was a big deal, but now the classical music parody website Submediant has asked, what about violists?  The video shows a woman walking around Manhattan and repeatedly harassed with viola jokes by passersby:  “Violin too hard?”; “Hey, what’s it like never playing in tune?”; “Hey, how to you stop a violist from drowning? You have you foot of their head.” At one point, a guy follows her whistling the Stamitz Viola Concerto for over 22 minutes.

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