[LMB] OT: Fiddling

[Raye Johnsen]

--- Tzivia Adler <tadler at yeshivanet.com> wrote:

> i need to know, can a person sing while fiddling?

Possible but not done.  As in, I've seen it done, by
someone who both played violin and sang, but neither
were of the person's best quality.  (It was a dare and
she never did it again.)  
 
> don't they tuck fiddles the
> same as violins?  aren't they the same thing but
> different quality?

Yes and no.  Yes, they are the same thing, but I don't
know about different quality - I've never heard
someone who calls them 'violins' speak of 'fiddles',
except as part of a title such as 'Fiddler on the
Roof', and I've never heard anyone who regularly
refers to 'fiddles' speak of 'violins'.  I always
thought it was a regional dialect thing, like the way
I refer to a 'bonnet' of a car but Americans of my
acquaintance speak of the 'hood'.

Raye




 
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