Ethnomusicologists use the term fiddle as informal taxonomical shorthand for bowed chordophone, at least those of a spike or lute based variety; as far as I know, no bowed-lyre (crwth, jouhikko, talharp etc.) has ever been called a fiddle, though there is a bowed Icelandic zither called a fidla. Whatever the case, an Erhu is an Erhu, not an Erhu Fiddle.

As well as bass fiddle for double bass (more of a viol than a violin?) I've heard bull fiddle. I've also heard hog fiddle for Appalachian Dulcimer, which has occasionally (traditionally?) been played with a bow, as is the Icelandic langspil from which it (partly) derives.

So back to WAV's Playing THE fiddle rhetoric (which he regurgitates whenever the word fiddle is mentioned) for a man who loves a multi-cultural WORLD, his patronising ethnocentricity in this respect would appear as misplaced as his professed faith in one of the worlds more culturally oppressive religions. All part of God's plan no doubt...