Hello. I have some pages from an oldish book of Scottish fiddle music, and something in the sheet music that I don't understand.

In several places I see a "double" note: there are two circles in the same position on the ledger, slightly overlapping, with one line sticking up (or down) from between them.

My teacher says that this means that I should do a quick bow cut in the middle of whatever length of time that note takes - that the presence of two circles mean the note should be cut in two.

However, I have found that this double symbol ONLY appears with D, A, and E (the D, A, and E that are on open strings). So I suspect that the double note means that the open string should be played simultaneously with the fretted equivalent on the string below.

Am I right?

Marion