# Any recordings of Jack Benny playing the violin seriously?

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**Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-recordings-of-jack-benny-playing-the-violin-seriously/479526/4 "2009-01-02T23:46:34Z")

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He performed excerpts from Sarasate’s “Ziegeunerweisen” when he hosted an episode of “Hollywood Palace”. The arrangement is a duet for him and his violin teacher as opposed to the original for solo violin. He’s playing as well as he can without his usual shtick of hilariously bad technique and intonation. The music starts at about 3:28, and you can hear him play a couple of somewhat challenging bars solo starting at about 7:10.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/bIJLGSIqt28/hqdefault.jpg "Jack Benny hosts Hollywood Palace (5 of 5)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIJLGSIqt28)

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