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20 Oct 07 - 07:41 AM (#2175201) Subject: tin fiddles in England and Scotland From: The Sandman Tin fiddles were common in Donegal,Is there any information or evidence that they were used amongst travellers or tinkers in Scotland, England, or Wales. I wondered if Jim Carroll had come across their use whilst collecting in the UK. |
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20 Oct 07 - 07:59 AM (#2175209) Subject: RE: tin fiddles in England and Scotland From: greg stephens There is a tin cello in the Potteries Museum, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. Quite where or when it was made I don't know. |
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20 Oct 07 - 01:21 PM (#2175387) Subject: RE: tin fiddles in England and Scotland From: McGrath of Harlow There is an iron cello in the Saffron Walden Museum. "Made by Thomas Barker, a Wimbish blacksmith, about 1830." It was played in a concert this year, along with various other instruments they've got there - Here I wasn't there, so I don't know what it sounded like. Probably not bad. I can't see why metal string instruments shouldn't sound OK. |
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20 Oct 07 - 01:38 PM (#2175400) Subject: RE: tin fiddles in England and Scotland From: Cruiser Why, that would be from those people over there had (have?) tin ears... "an insensitivity to melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic variety in music." |