 John the OFM  | 14 Feb 2013 7:33 p.m. PST |
Seriously, I don't know.
Are they the same?
Would it be blasphemous to play Bonaparte's Retreat on a Stradivarius? Would it wreck it? |
| kyoteblue | 14 Feb 2013 7:39 p.m. PST |
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| jpattern2 | 14 Feb 2013 8:32 p.m. PST |
Pretty good summary here: link
"You don't spill beer on a violin." Hah!
Looks like the main difference is the kind of music that's played on the fiddle/violin. Interesting. |
| charared | 14 Feb 2013 9:14 p.m. PST |
A violin has four stings… A fiddle has too. (sorry… old joke) |
| Space Monkey | 14 Feb 2013 11:03 p.m. PST |
When I wanted to learn fiddle the advice I got was to go to the music store and by a cheap used violin… something cast off by a beginning student. Then I took it to a violin maker here in town (a wonderful old man named Mushkin… a real craftsman). He tweaked and adjusted a few things on it and I THOUGHT he told me that a fiddle is strung a bit differently than a violin… though other folks tell me that's not true. In the end fiddle music was one of those things that I had to learn to enjoy watching/hearing without being able to do it myself. |
| Tom Bryant | 14 Feb 2013 11:31 p.m. PST |
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| Atomic Floozy | 15 Feb 2013 12:59 a.m. PST |
Well, "if you're gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle player in the band." After all, who ever heard of playing Cotton Eyed Joe without a fiddle? |
 Doms Decals  | 15 Feb 2013 2:36 a.m. PST |
You won't be arrested for indecency if you're caught having a violin in public…. |
 etotheipi | 15 Feb 2013 5:39 a.m. PST |
How closely your parents were related before they had you. |
| x42brown | 15 Feb 2013 6:05 a.m. PST |
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| Phil Hall | 15 Feb 2013 8:06 a.m. PST |
A violin is used in a symphony orchestra. A fiddle is used at a barn dance. |
| Ed Mohrmann | 15 Feb 2013 9:04 a.m. PST |
My Dad played in a CW band for a long time, for 'fun
money' and because he enjoyed it. Professionally, he
was an engineer. He played, banjo, guitar (6 and 12), mandolin – any
stringed instrument, including violin. According to him (when I was a kid), the only difference
'tween a 'fiddle' and a violin is the playing style. |
| Tacitus | 15 Feb 2013 10:57 a.m. PST |
If you can read music, it's a violin. If not, it's a fiddle. I tease only! |
| kreoseus2 | 15 Feb 2013 11:54 a.m. PST |
If your sister is also your cousin, it's a fiddle… |
Lee Brilleaux  | 15 Feb 2013 3:46 p.m. PST |
When I was at school in the early seventies, a friend was taking fiddle lessons – folk music – from an accomplished violin teacher, a Mr. Perfect. What a great name! His daughter was in a band who had some success a few years earlier, but weren't doing so well. My friend became an accomplished Irish fiddler, although he's not Irish. His teacher's daughter, Christine McVie, became a rock star when Fleetwood Mac took off. |
| jpattern2 | 15 Feb 2013 6:51 p.m. PST |
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| Mapleleaf | 15 Feb 2013 11:44 p.m. PST |
The biggest difference i usually the price I have never heard of a Stradivarius fiddle |
