Fiddle & Banjo Tune - Blue Ridge Mountain Grass

[countorlock100]

I love the way the banjer player swoops his neck each time the fiddle/violin slides a note and watches so intensly at his musical parter. What I got from this post was the way he feels every note and sound and expresses it. That golden connection is a rare thing and the sweetest place to be musicaly

[gfoss107]

You can spill beer on a fiddle! :-)

[Dpkll5]

The difference is the style of music your playing.

[gingermc2]

Well said!

[2ndfret]

No difference .

[rbwinn3]

@2ndfret An old guy in Texas defined the difference about 1890. He said that anything that costs more than $10.00 is a violin.

[gingermc2]

@rbwinn3 lol!

[pmb003]

He is really good with the fiddle

So tell me, whats the differance in the fiddle & the violin ??????

[gingermc2]

You're asking a non-musician?? lol!! To my knowledge - it's how and under what circumstances it's played, say, with an orchestra, it would be a violin. On waltz numbers, I personally consider it one and the same. Anybody else want to jump in here?

[jfarwell92]

@pmb003 gingermc was right it's about the way it's played. technically they're the same instrument but you don't play mozart on a fiddle or bluegrass on a violin.

[bonuscheesemilk]

@pmb003 I best heard it explained as: "a violin has strings. A fiddle got strangs!"