Skarpi If you can get in touch with a good fiddle player who does country western he can teach you more in ten minute the different styles lead in etc than you'll ever learn in a book.There are good country western fiddle players I firmly believe in every country throughout the world and I'm sure with an ad in your local papers you'll get a response.As for the proper instrument any good brand of guitar is suitable but forget about the fancy stuff Louie Roy