The fiddle and the violin

Timur Valois filted:
[nq:1]Could you help me? Please tell me what's the difference between the fiddle and the violin?[/nq]
Usage only...violins play "serious" music; fiddles play "folk" music...alternatively, a violin rests under the player's chin while a fiddle rests on the shoulder or upper arm..r

[nq:1]Hello! Could you help me? Please tell me what's the difference between the fiddle and the violin?[/nq]
It's a "violin" when you play classical music on it, and a "fiddle" when you play country music or traditional folk music on it. Same instrument, but I believe there are certain practices like bowing techniques that differ.

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In our last episode, , the lovely and talented Timur Valois broadcast on alt.usage.english:
[nq:1]Hello! Could you help me? Please tell me what's the difference between the fiddle and the violin?[/nq]
The style with which it is played. The instruments are one and the same.

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[nq:1]Hello! Could you help me? Please tell me what's the difference between the fiddle and the violin?[/nq]
At one level, the difference is simply linguistic - "fiddle" is a slang word for the violin (or any member of the violin family, hence "bass fiddle"). Lady Menuhin (sp?), wife of the world-famous violinist, used to refer to herself as a "fiddler's moll"

At another level, I onc

[nq:2]Hello! Could you help me? Please tell me what's the difference between the fiddle and the violin?[/nq]
[nq:1]It's a "violin" when you play classical music on it, and a "fiddle" when you play country music or traditional folk music on it. Same instrument, but I believe there are certain practices like bowing techniques that differ.[/nq]
A friend of mine who is technical director fort

[nq:2]Hello! Could you help me? Please tell me what's the difference between the fiddle and the violin?[/nq]
[nq:1]At one level, the difference is simply linguistic - "fiddle" is a slang word for the violin (or any member ... chin, and often rested on the performer's upper arm. This creates a more comfortable position for the same double stopping.[/nq]
Not to mention chewing, talking, and

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[nq:2]At another level, I once heard a respected folk fiddler ... creates a more comfortable position for the same double stopping.[/nq]
[nq:1]Not to mention chewing, talking, and other activities impossible with the instrument clapped tightly under the chin.[/nq]
Such as singing. One of the winners of the recent BBC Young Folk Awards describes herself as a "fiddle singer"; thi

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[nq:2]Not to mention chewing, talking, and other activities impossible with the instrument clapped tightly under the chin.[/nq]
[nq:1]Such as singing. One of the winners of the recent BBC Young Folk Awards describes herself as a "fiddle singer"; ... able to hear it on the radio. It certainly didn't sound as if her chin was constrained in any way.[/nq]
Ah. Her perform

[nq:1]Could you help me? Please tell me what's the difference between the fiddle and the violin?[/nq]
A violin has strings, and a fiddle has strangs.

-- Stefano http://www.steve-and-pattie.com/esperantujo

[nq:1]In our last episode, , the lovely and talented Timur Valois broadcast on alt.usage.english:[/nq]
[nq:2]Hello! Could you help me? Please tell me what's the difference between thefiddle and the violin?[/nq]
[nq:1]The style with which it is played. The instruments are one and the same.[/nq]
Yeah, I especially like bluegrass played on an Amati.

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