The musician tells the wolf to do everything he says and he takes him to an old oak tree, which is hollow inside and split open in the middle.
They come to a path with tall bushes on either side, where the musician bends down a hazel tree and puts his foot on the top.
The fox flies into the air, where it remains floating, and the musician continues on the path.
The fox sees him and shouts that the musician has tricked him, whereupon the wolf pulls down the tree limbs and bites the ropes.
Eugen Drewermann interprets "The Wonderful Musician", who attracts animals only to send them away from him, as an attempt to deny his original primal urges, perhaps to become more human.
[1] Timothy James Lambert's interpretation suggests that the various traps and tortures the musician inflicts on the animals are symbolic representations of the components and characteristics of a fiddle.