Jeri, I appreciate your point, but this Birdseye person can't be allowed to get away with his nonsensical views about Donegal fiddling style. Quite simply he doesn't know what he's talking about!

He wrote that he has 'heard' all the Donegal fiddlers whom I mentioned. So what? That's a far different thing from having witnessed them all in the flesh, as I have been fortunate to do. How can Birdseye appreciate their bowing styles when he hasn't seen them?

But then I noticed this strange statement in the middle of one of his postings 'any player using this technique will not have to rely on pa to get added volume'. I presume 'pa' isn't a reference to his father, but to PA. Why should any traditional fiddler, playing in a session, need a PA?

Birdseye is off his trolley, as the thousands of Irish fiddlers who don't use the classical position emphasize each time they play!