To twisting IB - it was you, not I, who failed to recognize all the many fiddles, through time and place, other than the violin...

"but a fiddle is always a violin" (IB, above)..."that's ethnocentric - if not fiddlesticks! And, if you check an encyclopedia of music rather than a general dictionary, you'll soon find instruments much earlier than the violin described as a fiddle" (me, above).