Fiddle

Fiddle main When played as a folk instrument, the violin is usually referred to in English as a fiddle (although the term fiddle can be used informally no matter what the genre of music.) A fiddle is essentially the same as a classical violin.

Ken’s love of fiddle music continued, from Bluegrass to Celtic to Old Time Fiddle.

The band members are Jackson Cunningham on guitar, mandolin and vocals, Jeff Michael on fiddle, Ramona Church on five string banjo, guitar and vocals, and Jerry Steinberg on bass fiddle.

The use of the word to refer to something of little value may be related to the fact that the verb fiddle has a contemptuous meaning: to fiddle is to do something frivolous, to do something aimlessly.

Etymology The etymology of fiddle is uncertain: the Germanic fiddle may derive from the same early Romance word as does violin, or it may be natively Germanic.

Fiddle tunes are readily accessible to the mandolin player because of the equivalent tuning and range of the two instruments, and the practically identical (allowing for the lack of frets on the fiddle) left hand fingerings.

These tunings are used to make it easier to play specific, usually, fiddle tunes, or groups of fiddle tunes.

Traditionally the píob mór and the fiddle were the only instruments used and the use of pipe or fiddle music was common in old wedding customs.

A young Wigan man will face a magistrates' court trial after denying a £5,700 benefit fiddle.

Baseball is second fiddle.

But we have to remember that it came on the tail of five days of the summer Fiddle Week, including a ceilidh in Aros Hall on the Thursday night.

Emma Durkan has been playing traditional music on the fiddle since the age of 11 and the clarsach (celtic harp) since the age of 14.

Englebright, who was in attendance for the civic meeting, said one gravestone is significant as a fiddle is carved into it.

Even in Por Thozhil, you play second fiddle to Sarathkumar.

Fiddle player Eck Robertson is credited as the first person to record country music for commercial release in 1922 when he cut the songs "Sallie Gooden" and "Arkansaw Traveler" to vinyl.

He enjoys music, singing, playing the harpsichord, fiddle and piano.

He is widely believed to play second-fiddle to the army chief, General Syed Asim Munir.

He's as fit as a fiddle, it's probably where I get my madness from.

My husband became an outcast in our own home, second fiddle to me, the primary source of nourishment and comfort, but also to the institution of motherhood, to which my body also now belonged.

Runrig drummer Iain Bayne will lead the 50th anniversary celebration for the group, with singer Julie Fowlis, Wolfstone founding member and fiddle player Duncan Chisholm, Gary Innes and, of course, Brian on keys.