In article ,
Richard Robinson wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) said:
In article ,
Eiron wrote:
Very odd you want 'respect' shown to fiddle players regardless, but
are happy to slag off every other trade. Are you a frustrated fiddle
player?

The OED says "Now only in familiar or contemptuous use".

It's what a pro musician friend of mine calls his. ;-)

But then he is without an inch of pretension.

As a tune-playing "folky", if I heard a fiddle-player talk about a
'violin' I'd wonder if they'd lost their way to an orchestra. Likewise,
(a small random selection of) the CD sleeves from highly respected
professional players decribe their instrument as 'fiddle'. Maybe that
counts as "familiar" ? It's certainly not contemptuous.

Context is all.

Quite. And consider the jokes muso tell about other musos.


BTW, do you agree with Iain:-

'A violin needs air. "Tight" mics (your term) sound awful
on strings They need air and lots of it.'

in terms of playing in a band on stage? Do you see that fiddle mic'd from
miles away?

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