A great big thank you to all the people who threw in their $.02 in my hunt for a cheap fiddle. I opted for this one. So it should be here within a week. Can't wait to try it out! I suppose I should take it to someone when I get it and make sure it's decent enough for me to try on.

Thanks again everyone...mucho appreciated.

More questions! A seller on eBay (a store basically) has this list of criteria for what a "good" violin should have. How much is true? Are they just listing this to con the gullible into buying THEIR instruments ( Read more... )

I'm primarily a clarinet (classical) and whistle (Irish music) player, but I'm thinking of getting some really crappy beginning fiddle off of eBay (I can't afford a great instrument right now and I'd like to start playing it)...I'm intending to just learn Irish music on it (for classical, I'll stick with clarinet). So the question is...would it be ( Read more... )

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my name is Stephanie, i'm from Canada. i've been playing since October of this past year. i've always respected the fiddle and admired it, so one day when i was in town i rather hastily decided that i wanted to play and walked into a store and bought my little girl Leigh Anne *her name*. i don't practice nearly as much as i should, but i do not ( Read more... )

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Have any of you ever tried singing along as you play? For example, the other day I was just fooling around and started trying to muddle m'way through Wild Mountain Thyme, then started singing along, then tried playing the descant while I sang the melody - and it didn't quite work, because my mind only wanted to follow one line at a time. Pianists ( Read more... )

Does anyone know anything about the Gaelic College summer program? I'm looking at possibly going there this summer, and am wondering if anyone's been there, or knows someone who has, or whatnot.

Hello, all! Hmm, introduction. Well, I'm a 20-year-old Irish fiddler in New York. I played classical violin from the ages of about eleven to seventeen, when I quit and switched over to folk music. I love session playing and chatting up musicians to get them to show me their tunes, but I'll also learn from recordings if I have to. I'm a student, so ( Read more... )