On the platform of the Washington stop of the O'Hare line of Cicago's CTA, last Saturday,there was a short, middle-aged Hispanic man making remarkable music in a most remarkable way.

    He was playing a twelve-string guitar and a fiddle. The fiddle was attached to the neck of the guitar and the bow attached to his wrist. When he came to a rest, in a given piece of music, on the guitar he would reach up to do a one or two note fill with the fiddle.
Meanwhile, he was whistling the main melody and dancing (he wore tap shoes, so that the dancing added to the music).

    Before you ask, the answer is "YES"! Your darned right I dropped some money in his case. I'd have done that just for hearing the twelve-string used in a Spanish context (that sound alone was amazing). What grabbed me was the fact that he was very good at each of the things that he was doing. When done together the effect was nothing short of miraculous and wonderful. Talk about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts.