I laugh at one of my violin students memories. Thought you might enjoy it. The violin this young girl had was just dug out of the attic right before she had her first lesson. When she arrived I got the usual history of the instrument, belonged to some great-----. When I took the violin to tune it inside was a set of rattlesnake rattles. I had no idea what the was about but upon questioning her I found out it was to keep the devil and witches out when her grandfather played fiddle tunes. This really has nothing to do with Irish music but I guess the fiddling made me think of it.bet