strum up support

[Joel S. Berson]

At 6/13/2007 06:17 PM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>On Jun 13, 2007, at 3:00 PM, Doug Harris wrote:
>
>>In a poetic way, _strum up support_ makes perfect sense if
>>referring to
>>the effort stringed-instrument-bearing buskers, flower children and
>>the like do to allow them to continue the lifestyle they've chosen.
>
>now in the ecdb, with doug quoted as above:

Don't most string section buskers scrape rather than pluck?

In that heritage, "David Juritz, the 49-year-old internationally
renowned violinist who is concertmaster of the London Mozart Players
and guest concertmaster of the Royal Philharmonic and London
Philharmonic Orchestras [presumably when he is not outside the hall
strumming up an audience]," has taken to the streets as a
busker.  "[H]e plans to play his way across 60,000 miles in 25
countries" to raise money "for charities that bring music to poor
children."  [NYTimes, June 12.]

Joel

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