Ahhh, polkas! The easiest thing for a beginner to play on the fiddle, as everyone who has suffered while sitting near me at a Mudcat gathering will testify. I like the Newmarket polka, and the one Letty taught me in Hull9 (the Maids of Somethingorother... Ardagh, I believe.) Polkatastic. Mind you, I can manage slow reels now (it's a new form of dance music, like a slow air, but 4/4).