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What's A Fiddle? Everything You Need To Know About The Violin's Southern Cousin We're not letting this instrument play second fiddle anymore.
Guest blogger and musician Michael Pahn prefers his fiddle to a violin, though they are the same instrument ...
Phil Banaczak, whose talents include teaching fiddle, violin, and mandolin, will be the featured performer from 2-5 p.m.
Jonathan Chai started playing violin at age 4. “I was a very serious classical musician. Still am,” Chai says. Yet when Chai is spotted two Saturday afternoons a month in the circle of ...
Soon, the fiddler began experiencing chronic pain in his bow arm. Richard Greene invented the fiddle chop, a technique that mimics percussion on a violin. (Courtesy of the artist) ...
Fit As A Fiddle: How the Violin Helped Shape Jazz, Part 2 article by Peter Rubie, published on December 30, 2021 at All About Jazz. Find more The Jazz Life articles ...
I’ve never met Sandy Herrault or heard her play the violin/fiddle, but she’s on my short list of musicians to check out.
Does a Stradivarius violin still sound good when it's played by a mediocre fiddler? We put one of the Smithsonian's instruments to the test.
Technique There are separate approaches to playing a violin versus a fiddle, but the minutia of which will mean little to those outside the stringed community.