Three Stooges Clip

[Randy Stein]

[David Barnert]

Moe and Shemp are just miming, but it looks like Larry really knows his way around a fiddle.

[cjmiller]

Moe and Shemp are just miming, but it looks like Larry really knows his way around a fiddle.

 

 

Larry Fine was a Vaudeville performer on the violin. He did Russian dancing while playing it. Even he admitted it wasn't a very good act.

 

When Ted Healey and Mo Howard offered him a job as a Stooge, the story Larry Fine told was that they offered him $75 per week plus a $10 per week bonus if he promised he would stop playing the violin.

[Bruce McCaskey]

Amazing bellows extension on that concertina.

[David Barnert]

I just looked at the clip again. The first time I saw it I was thinking it's probably silly to be concerned about the anachronism of the concertina in what otherwise seems to strive to be a renaissance scene. This time I noticed the 20th-century mechanical spring-wound window shade at 1:43.

[Mike Franch]

Even more interesting is the miracle of the concertina playing without the players fingers moving on the keys!

 

I wonder if the credits credited the musician. I think I detected a concertina on the sound track!