Hello. I am from Lanark County, Ontario, and I keep a couple of hand-knotted ribbons hanging from my fiddle head. This is because the person who is my biggest influence (also from Lanark County) has a ribbon on his fiddle and he told me that lots of fiddlers tie ribbons or scarves onto their fiddle heads.

Now I live in Cape Breton, and a Quebecois fiddler I know here told me that he's seen it done in Ontario, but not in Quebec or Cape Breton.

So now I'm curious... do you decorate your fiddle, or have you seen others do so? If so, where are you or they from?

Marion