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Thread #123081 Message #4175761
Posted By: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
28-Jun-23 - 11:33 PM
Thread Name: Sea shanties for fiddle
Subject: RE: Sea shanties for fiddle
Needs better glossary. There never was an 'official' governing body to define chantey/shanty for real-world maritime usage. Otherwise, salty fiddlers go clear back to Orpheus.
So, if one Googles: “fiddler on the capstan” - one of many returns will be the current Sea Shanty wiki with an image of a ...black fiddler accompanying heaving at the capstan, from The Quid (1832).