"Vintage-'Solsirépifpan'-tight blue frogs" Poster

He had imagined delight for walkers of the Tuileries and the Champs Elysees by becoming a 1 man band-itinerant orchestra by a musical combination such that every movement corresponded to a percussion or friction of some musical appendage hanging from his body. Admire the helmet, because his tassel is decorated with small bells which the coat collar extravagant rises up to the ears. His tinder colour tights decorated with light blue frogs, Solsirépifpan; In order to play a pan flute that is within reach of its lips and hidden under the lapel of his coat he moves his shoulders. Then with his right hand, he teases a guitar, while the tight left forearm strap attaches from the right shoulder to the left side hanging at the end, a small mandolin. The man retains a knee-high triangle hit by a stick attached to his right calf just over the mandolin. And attached to his feet are fixed two cymbals so as to produce a percussion sound by bringing his knees together. This ingenious musician playing six instruments, one less than the old soldier of the Champs Elysees, so as he had the greatest success. Haunting the different walks he was not confined to the instrumental part, as he sang too, and dominated a shrill sound of his band! His mind has preserved the titles of the songs with which he charmed the crowds favourite, and it was his first aria of the "cavatina Rosière, My little boat" he played and sang, innocent to the night air, on the minor andante Armida.