"Richard Robinson" wrote in message
o.uk...

I've heard of Hungarian players using a flat-bridge instrument for
accompaniment, I don't believe I've ever heard of it closer to home,
except
in vague 'reconstruction' terms of what people might have done a long time
ago[1]. And most of the people I've heard from seem to expect to pay a few
times that for a (ahem) fiddlestick.

I think our contacts with 'folk' music must be very different, but I'll be
sure to notice the other sort if I see one.

A flat bridge doesn't sound practical at all for a bowed instrument:-)

Back in the days when folk music sold records in good numbers,
I made a quite a lot of folk albums for the Argo label
(a Decca subsiduary) whose artist roster included Ewan McColl,
Peggy Seager,The Druids,Peter Bellamy, The Songwainers etc etc.

They were interesting times. I was interested particularly in playing
techniques, and it was Dave Swarbrick, over a pint or two at the
Railway, who brought the the peculiarities of the "fiddle" to my
attention.

I have always tried to be as accurate as I can in music.
Why say trumpet if you really mean flugel horn :-)

Iain