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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Violin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
It is the smallest and highest-tuned member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola, cello and arguably the double bass (the double bass technically belongs to the similar but distinct viol family).
One very slight difference between "fiddles" and ordinary violins may be seen in American (e.g., bluegrass and old-time music) fiddling: in these styles, the bridge is often shaved down so that it is less curved.
Another series of instruments which contributed to the development of the modern fiddle was the viol, which was played while held between the legs, and has a fretted fingerboard.
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Needless to say, the violin immediately became very popular, both among street-musicians and the nobility, illustrated by the fact that the French king Charles IX ordered Amati to build a whole orchestra in the second half of the 16th century.
One very slight difference between "fiddles" and ordinary violins may be seen in American (e.g., bluegrass and old-time music) fiddling: in these styles, the top of the bridge may be cut so that it is very slightly less curved.
Twin fiddling is represented in some North American and Scandinavian styles, but it is said that two traditional Irish fiddlers in the same room makes about as much sense as having two storytellers going at the same time.
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 Violin: violin music
A violin is sometimes informally called a fiddle, no matter what kind of music is played on it.
The words "violin" and "fiddle" come from the same Middle Latin word vitula, but "violin" came through the Romance languages, meaning small viola, and "fiddle" through Germanic languages.
The first real violin was built by Andrea Amati in the first half of the 16th century by order of the Medici family, who had asked for an instrument that could be used by street musicians, but with the quality of a lute, which was a very popular instrument among the noble in that time.
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One very slight difference between fiddle and violin occurs in American (e.g., bluegrass and old-time music) fiddling: the bridge is shaved down so that it isless curved.
Another series of instruments which contributed to the development of themodern fiddle was the viol, which was played while held between the legs, and has a frettedfingerboard.
English folk fiddle playersinclude Dave Swarbrick and Ric Sanders, both of whom have been membersof Fairport Convention, and the "darling" of the newgeneration of English folk musicians Eliza Carthy.
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A common colloquial name for the violin is the fiddle, and a violin is typically called a fiddle when used in a style of playing known as fiddling (see below).
One very slight difference between fiddle and violin occurs in American (e.g.,
Canadian fiddling (including Cape Breton fiddling, where it's more commonly called Cape Breton Violin Music; Québécois fiddling, and others)
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Working on the written part of this project has sort of made my blog monitoring duties fall to the wayside, but I believe that I’ve made sufficient progress for now — at the end of the day, my thesis is the most important!
I have taken a short break from fiddling around with the technology side of my project, but will return to fixing my interviews for podcast condition tomorrow, as well as blogging some of my interview results.
In podcast-related news, a new piece of French legislation may provide precedence toward more open audio file formats:
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