This post got deleted before, when the forum was wound back to a previous state.

This guy may feature elsewhere on Fiddlerman, but I searched and couldn't find him.

It's stuff I put on another forum, so I'm surprised the formatting isn't too bad.

"AndrewF said:

More: -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?.....oX4lRehgdA
First thing - the Czardas sounds traditional, but in fact it was a 1904 composition of the Italian one-hit-wonder Vittorio Monti.
But maybe it was a hit because it was not so much composed as copied from original Hungarian dance melodies?

I'm posting this because that street performer is not anonymous, and I thought I'd do a bit of low-level "research" (i.e. Googling) on him and use this forum as a repository.

Here's a Polish Wiki page on him: - https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/.....an_Dymiter

Google translate gives: -

Stefan Dymiter
Stefan Dymiter , pseudonym Cororo (born on May 5, 1938 in Płonna , died October 26, 2002 in Krakow ) - a virtuoso violinist from Gypsy, self-taught.

As a child, Dymiter lost his sight, and his legs had to be amputated. One of the most famous Polish street musicians. He collaborated with the Piwnica pod Baranami . The honor of his talent was an invitation to a concert at the Krakow Philharmonic , where he delighted the critics with his playing. Music was buried in Kowary .

The name of witruoza is held by the ethno music festival "CORORO - Ethno Festival Stefan Dymiter ", which since 2012 has been held in Kowary [1] .

Footnotes
CORORO - I Etno Festival Stefan Dymiter
External links
Polish Radio website about the most famous Polish street musicians
Festival website - Municipal Cultural Center in Kowary
A memory of Stefan Dymiter

This site translated says
Tribute to another Krakow legend of playing in the open air Maleńczuk placed on the debut album Homo Twist. In the song "City of Krakow", the enfant terrible of Podwawel's bohemia sings "while Stefan plays the violin, I will have hope". Of course, it's about the famous musician Stefan Dymitr . Blind and legless virtuoso violin with his overwhelming game for years moved passers-by in Kowary, Jelenia Góra, and finally permanently inscribed in the landscape of the city of Krak.

Gypsy musician self-taught, because of the inadequate right hand he held the instrument in a characteristic way, with his right hand behind the neck, resting the violin on his stomach. Despite these adversities, Dymiter achieved incredible skill and feeling in the game, becoming one of the symbols of Krakow. Confirmation of his enormous talent was an invitation to a concert at the Cracow Philharmonic where the artist who did not know the score on stage did not give way to educated musicians. The violinist Stefan disappeared forever from Floriańska St. in 2002. The music was buried in the cemetery in his home town of Kowary.

And some Google searches in case I want to take this any further.

A FB page

It doesn't look as though his legs were amputated as a child though - it must either have been something congenital or too many oilies [added for Americans - oily = oily rag, fag (cigarette)]:

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But I suspect he never lost them and it's just someone romantically guessing from a bad photo or video.
I'd give more than a penny for the thoughts of the guy on the right.

I am not a fan of emoting.

It comes in many forms, some genuine and some utterly fake.

Emoting can be a substitute for musical expression. Clearly you have to make music first and emote (if you must) second.

Even in Vengerov's case I feel his emoting isn't really all that necessary for the sound he produces, although he is genuine.

Plenty of top performers don't, and don't need to, emote, and emoting is usually for the audience's benefit. Even a pianist can emote for the audience where it has zero musical effect. You can pretend to vibrato on a piano key. It does almost nothing, but the audience sees it and goes with it.