I didn't know you played fiddle either, KT. Even more unbelievable, I played fiddle for several years. I got by because I played with another musician who played a very heavy-handed, loud hammered dulcimer. I told him that if he ever stopped playing mid-stream and people heard how bad I really was that I'd slip some termies into his hammered dulcimer, sight unseen. I never learned to play fiddle "right." I remember once playing Forked Deer with my friend Peter, and someone came up afterward all indignent-like. He said, "Nobody plays Forked Deer in D! It's always played in C.!!!!"
I said, "Somebody does now." In honesty, I don't remember any more what key every fiddler on the planet played Forked Deer in (ending with a preposition, yet.) I played it the way I could play it. I heard it in my head, and that's where the notes came out on the fiddle. Besides, my friend Peter was perfectly happy playing it in the only key I could play the song..

Folk purists can be enormously pompous.

Jerry