The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #19704 Message #203521
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
29-Mar-00 - 06:45 PM
Thread Name: Playing open strings OK on fiddle?
Subject: RE: Playing open strings OK on fiddle?
Actually, you can get vibrato on an open string. (See Jeri's post earlier) -finger the next string up, an octave higher than the note you're bowing. Apply vibrato to that. It's not quite the same, but it does work.