Stop arguing - get playing! It's a pity none of you made it to the Glencolmcille Traditional Arts Festival last Easter where you could have seen Tommy Peoples, Danny Meehan and James Byrne together in action.

All three from Donegal, yet so different (Danny is leaning towards the Sligo style for instance). James Byrne who is one of the most powerful players on the scene and who can make a cheap chinese factory fiddle sound like a Stradivari certainly uses the whole bow.

Listen again to these fiddlers - some of them quite famous - who grip the bow high up and play so fast they nearly overtake themselves - do they actually get a good tone out of the fiddle? Or is it maybe the sound engineer....anyone wanting to continue the discussion can meet me at the Glen Festival this Easter Monday 2008 in Roarty's Bar for a tune...