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Subject: RE: Help: TINPLATE TINKERS FIDDLE From: GUEST,Moleskin Joe Date: 10 Mar 02 - 10:58 AM The ones made in Donegal were made from brass and there is an excellent picture of one on the cover of the LP referred to above. |
Subject: RE: Help: TINPLATE TINKERS FIDDLE From: GUEST,Philippa Date: 10 Mar 02 - 10:34 AM Caoimhin MacAoidh in Ballyshannon, Co Donegal might help you with this. He runs fiddle workshops so might have a website. founder of Cairde na bFidleoirí. There's a recording of Donegal music called "The Brass Fiddle" In a musical instrument museum in Norway (Trondheim??)I saw a fiddle made from matchsticks, but I didn't hear it played. |
Subject: RE: Help: TINPLATE TINKERS FIDDLE From: The Pooka Date: 09 Mar 02 - 04:32 PM Remarkable. Always things to learn on Mudcat. / Wait! Let's have a jam with tin fiddles and wood whistles. (Maybe a polymer electric bodhrain) |
Subject: RE: Help: TINPLATE TINKERS FIDDLE From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 09 Mar 02 - 09:24 AM Tin Fiddle photos at Frets.com
Apparantly, Sears & Roebuck used to sell tin fiddles; quite a few Old Time players learnt on them. |
Subject: RE: Help: TINPLATE TINKERS FIDDLE From: GUEST,Russ Date: 09 Mar 02 - 07:54 AM You might try asking the question on Fiddle-L. http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/fiddle-l.html |
Subject: RE: Help: TINPLATE TINKERS FIDDLE From: greg stephens Date: 08 Mar 02 - 10:06 PM Didn't the Donegal fiddler Johnny Docherty make tinn fiddles? Or use one? I've heard some such story. There's a fabulous tin cello in Hanley Museum(Stoke-on-Trent,UK) |
Subject: RE: Help: TINPLATE TINKERS FIDDLE From: Uncle Jaque Date: 08 Mar 02 - 08:06 PM Hmmm... That last posting was done with the aid of a new text editing program, "Extreme Pad" V.2.01 which is supposed to put all the HTML stuff in there automaticly so it comes out all nicely formatted in a forum like this. I'd say that it's not working all that well... |
Subject: RE: Help: TINPLATE TINKERS FIDDLE From: Uncle Jaque Date: 08 Mar 02 - 07:59 PM <pre> </pre> Now that you mention it, I have seen just such a fiddle! It was about five years ago in the shop of a Tinker from WESTON, Vermont. He had it hanging on the wall, and upon my inquiry (I had never seen one before) he explained that it was probably made for a wedding or "Tin" Anniversary celebration rather than to be played seriously. He was not a Musician, but allowed how as it would "play", but was not particularly impressed with the "music" which came out of it. |
Subject: RE: Help: TINPLATE TINKERS FIDDLE From: JohnInKansas Date: 08 Mar 02 - 06:49 PM There are a couple of "stainless steel" double basses that show up occasionally in campground picking sessions around her. (I'd guess that they're more likely chrome plated brass.) I've never heard one "bowed" but for plucking and slap techniques they sound almost as good as my washtub double bass. John |
Subject: RE: Help: TINPLATE TINKERS FIDDLE From: weepiper Date: 08 Mar 02 - 02:27 PM I have seen a metal fiddle, don't know what kind of metal though; there's a lad plays in sessions in Edinburgh and Glasgow uses one. It sounded fine to me - not like a really nice wooden fiddle, but certainly no worse than the average one. |
Subject: RE: Help: TINPLATE TINKERS FIDDLE From: GUEST,Al Date: 07 Mar 02 - 07:08 PM Wow! I bet the tone is kind of, well, you know, sort of tinny. |
Subject: TINPLATE TINKERS FIDDLE From: GUEST,IVOR BIGGIN Date: 07 Mar 02 - 01:32 PM CAN ANYONE HELP WITH SUCCESSES/ FAILURES THEY HAVE HAD MAKING A FIDDLE FROM TIN PLATE. i HAVE IT FROM VERY GOOD AUTHORITY THAT IRISH TINKERS MADE FIDDLES THIS WAY. ANY HELP WOULD BE MOST APRECIATED |
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