On 16 Aug 2006 at 22:18, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > As to the difference of fiddler and violinist
I'm not sure why this message from the middle of August just came through, but it gives me the opportunity to follow up on the fiddle/violin conversation. I was home visiting family last weekend, and my mother showed me her great grandfather's fiddle, which she had found in the attic of my grnadmother's house after she passed away. It was a cheap thing, probably from Montgomery Ward or Sears, but the fingerboard showed exactly what Kim had said -- only the first two or three positions had ever been used, as the rest of the fingerboard was uniformly black and the first few positions were worn through (with non-worn strips under the strings). So, it seems that what Kim had observed on the fiddle he was looking at must have been pretty common, despite the protestations of many on this list to the contrary. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
