[LMB] OT: Fiddling

[H R Stockert]

At 08:11 PM 7/12/2007, you wrote:
>--- 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

Many fiddlers hold the violin in the crook of the elbow rather than 
under the chin.  They do quite well that way......it's quite common 
in local barn dances, both here and where I was born, on the 
reservations of North Dakota.



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