Fiddle

A fiddle is any bowed string musical instrumen, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music. Fiddle playing, or fiddling, refers to various styles of music. Quotes FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat. Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911). violins, like dreamy poets,/sang of love and death. Drunk from the Bitter Truth: The Poems of Anna Margolin translated from Yiddish by Shirley Kumove (2017) We consider that the man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip, may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency. Mark Twain, "The Music", Virginia city Territorial Enterprise, 10 January 1863, p. 3; as cited in The Works of Mark Twain: Early Tales & Sketches (1979), Volume 15, Part 1, p. 181, note 1. A variant without the word "musical" appears in Mark Twain of the Enterprise: newspaper articles & other documents, 1862-1864 (1957), p. 47. External links fiddle Category:Musical instruments