Josephine Baker A violinist had a violin, a...
Honore de Balzac The majority of husbands remind...
Ethel Barrymore Fundamentally I feel that there...
Ritchie Blackmore Jimmy Page had a volume pedal...
Carla Bley I had to keep writing music...
Napoleon Bonaparte I love power. But it is...
Samuel Butler Life is like playing a violin...
Alejo Carpentier When I write literature, works...
Elliott Carter The Third Quartet I made the...
Mark David Chapman I don't have a violin. I...
Guy Clark It was really amazing. I mean...
Tommy Cooper I inherited a painting and a...
John Corigliano If you take a violin, you...
Jacques Yves Cousteau It takes generosity to discover...
Blythe Danner I started studying violin and...
Blythe Danner Uncle Bill is a violin maker...
Paul Desmond I would also like to thank...
Placido Domingo I am looking for ways of...
Albert Einstein A table, a chair, a bowl ...
Violin and fiddle compared for similarities and differences.
This question comparing violin and fiddle is the all-time winner of FAQ's for me.
When people hear my answer about the difference between the violin and the fiddle,
they usually say, "That's what I thought."
Itzhak Perlman refers to his strad as a "fiddle." And concert violinists sometimes
refer to their colleagues as "fiddlers." But, this is just a loose way of speaking ...
Connexions: Francesco Geminiani: the art of playing the violin:
Three primary 18th century violin treatises (Geminiani, Leopold Mozart and L'Abbé Fils - the Italian, the German and the French) were all created within the space of the decade 1751-1761 and summarize the traditions they represent. A paradox exists, however, in that both too few and too many details of violin playing are known. Certain questions cannot be answered with assurance; the bewildering array of answers within the boundaries of accepted practice leads to the conclusion that there is not one but a variety of 18th century styles ...
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The Left-Handed Fiddler:
A resource site offering info on history, arts, touring and business for the New Hampshire seacoast, South coast of Maine and North Shore Massachussetts. Rich in history, culture and resources, the region is dominated by the tidal rivers of the mighty Piscataqua river., Captain Fiddle aka Ryan Thompson breaks a 400 year old custom by playing left-handed violin ...
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