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Violin Self-Pity Piece?
In old movies when someone felt sorry for themselves this violin piece would play. I figured it for Italian but that might have had more to do with the surroundings as I recall someone sitting at a table in an Italian restaurant feeling sorry for themselves and this guy would come up behind him playing this piece on the violin. It became such a standard that after a while they didn't even need the violin & music, someone would play an air violin, even with just their fingers as they would say "I'm playing the world's smallest violin for you" to evoke it. Now the phrase "playing the violin" has entered the popular vernacular to indicate self-pity & lack of sympathy with it that's how much a part of the culture those old movie scenes have become.
My question is does anyone remember what piece was played on the violin for those self-pity scenes?
Or alternatively, does anyone recall a specific movie where the "violin playing self-pity piece" actually played?
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He must be using a special record player because that spins faster than 33 1/3 or 45rpm. I assume it's a 78; that's the fastest I've ever seen on a record player.)