Bodhran and Fiddle Reel

Ryan and Soazig practicing for exams

Category:

Music

Tags:

• irish
• traditional
• music
• bodhran
• fiddle
• reel

[fuckapotomis]

Nope, a fiddle and violin are in fact the same thing.

[giovanninme2012]

@oghamduo actually there is a minor difference - a lot of times on 'old time fiddles' the curve on the top of the bridge is flatter - thus making it easier to hit more strings at once which is very common in fiddling. Most people, though, use violins to fiddle - which is totally ok by me because I do it too (actually with my viola). but in essence, there is a difference.

[mekanonchegquanunon]

really guys? who cares?! just enjoy the awesome music!

[Hamiltonharty]

First tune is julia delaney's, I love that tune. Don't recognize the second.

[VinSchitz]

This is beautiful :) Stop arguing, jeez.

[fluffytom82]

@armageddon812 Do you think I was blabbing out of my neck? I started studying music 25 years ago, I have a master in music, I've been playing traditional european music for more than 10 years. I know what I'm talking about.

The tradition of the music is not disappearing. The melodies and different playing styles are more alive than ever. But the mere fact that you don't know that a fiddle is not a modern violin is proof that this part of tradition, the instrument itself, is dying out.

[fluffytom82]

@fiddlegirl79 In the Middle Ages thousands of people believed that the earth was flat, but that wasn't true either. Still today people think a harpsichord is "an old piano", which it is not. Probably hundreds of americans think that Europe is a country or Ghana is in Asia, but it i far from being true.

You will probably find many people who think that a violin and a fiddle are the same, but that doesn't make it true...

[fluffytom82]

@fiddlegirl79 As far as I can tell, I didn't insult you... I told you that people started to give nicknames to their violins, I told you that fiddles are still used in european traditional music, I told you that your attitude is helping the disappearance of an instrument. I really don't know how any of that could be insulting.

[fiddlegirl79]

@fiddlegirl79 And back then, they did have gut strings...everyone (or a good majority did) played on gut strings. Metal wound strings on all 4 strings have been fairly modernized and is now what fiddle players prefer.

[armageddon812]

@fluffytom82 all I can say is read up on it. Do some research. Fiddle is a nickname, it's been used for the lyre, cello, and more commonly the violin. "fiddling" is a way of playing the instrument and where the nickname comes from. It has nothing to do with tge extinction of tradition, because in fact, it is a tradition. Beyond that, the tradition isn't going anywhere.

[fiddlegirl79]

Okay...so this is what my music encyclopeida (Norton/Grove) says about the fiddle. First few sentences: "Generic term for any string instrument played with a bow. Colloquially, 'fiddle' is often used for a member of the violin family or the kit ('dancing-master's fiddle')." Then it goes to talk about the fiddle in the middle ages and renaissance. Yes, the instrument looked different, but with the fiddle music today, you couldn't play a lot of music on that kind of instrument.

[fiddlegirl79]

@fluffytom82 Thanks for all of the insults. I appreciate them. (note the sarcasm) I know what I know is correct. I have a lot of people who will back me up on this (they may not post here as they might not have YT accounts)...probably more people than your story...and that's what it is...a story.