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27 Jan 05 - 04:16 PM (#1390467) Subject: Giant Fiddle From: Sandy Mc Lean All of you fiddlers are invited to Cape Breton to try a tune on this: http://mslaven.locals.ca/misc/giant_fiddle.jpg You will have to paste in the URL . Perhaps someone will please make a clickie. Slainte, Sandy |
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27 Jan 05 - 04:20 PM (#1390470) Subject: RE: Giant Fiddle From: GUEST http://mslaven.locals.ca/misc/giant_fiddle.jpg |
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27 Jan 05 - 04:21 PM (#1390474) Subject: RE: Giant Fiddle From: GUEST,Sandy (lost cookie) -----Thursday, January 27, 2005 The Halifax Herald Limited ... TERA CAMUS/Cape Breton Bureau Weighing 10 tonnes and costing $100,000, this massive solid steel fiddle was hoisted into place at the newly renovated Sydney Marine Terminal on Wednesday. Artist doesn't fiddle around Huge sculpture to dominate Sydney waterfront By TERA CAMUS / Cape Breton Bureau SYDNEY - If you could find a giant to play it, this baby could sing. A massive solid steel fiddle, which weighs 10 tonnes and cost $100,000, was hoisted into place Wednesday outside the newly renovated Sydney Marine Terminal on Sydney's waterfront. Crafted by artist-welder Cyril Hearn at Elks Fabricators, the fiddle - once its steel strings and bow are added - will reach 16.5 metres high and span 4.5 metres, making it among the largest in the world. "I knew he had talent, but this is just amazing," Mr. Hearn's mom Mary Poirier said with tears in her eyes as she stood watching a local crew and crane gingerly move the fiddle onto its steel supports. "There's no words to explain how I feel," she added, her voice breaking. "It's just fantastic." Mr. Hearn worked on the piece for months at the Sydney Steel site and told this newspaper earlier that in fashioning the huge replica, he included the same supports and holes you'd find on fiddles in music shops. His hope was to make it play, which apparently it does. Adrian Gatrill of Gatrill Management Associates was project designer for the $5-million renovation of the Sydney Marine Terminal that will officially open Friday with a Cape Breton ceilidh. It was a project that was almost three years in the making. "The main idea was to set up a symbol that's symbolic of Cape Breton's heritage," Mr. Gatrill said Wednesday, noting the fiddle has been played in dance halls and the kitchen parties of Cape Breton's Scottish, Acadian and Mi'kmaq homes for the past 200 years. "The other objective was we wanted to make sure everyone gets off the cruise ships (that dock at the site)," he said. "We want to make sure they are enticed off the ships to visit the area, to shop, even just to take photos." There was "a lot of engineering on this," he added, to ensure that the fiddle is able to withstand the strong winds that often batter the coast. "It's also tilted back five degrees, and tilted sideways by five degrees, which makes it even more challenging," he said, noting "significant safety factors were taken into account for all forces and wind factors." Steve Antle, spokesman of the East Coast Music Awards show to be hosted in Sydney next month, joked the fiddle is proof of Cape Breton's "huge musical footprint." "This is the Celtic version of the Trojan Horse, the Celtic Horse, and I keep expecting a bunch of Cape Bretoners to come out playing," he said to laughter at an unrelated news conference in the terminal Wednesday as the fiddle was being moved into place outside. Back Copyright © 2005 The Halifax Herald Limited _______________________________________________ http://www.cbmusic.com |
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27 Jan 05 - 04:23 PM (#1390479) Subject: RE: Giant Fiddle From: Sandy Mc Lean Thanks Guest for the clickie! |
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27 Jan 05 - 09:32 PM (#1390796) Subject: RE: Giant Fiddle From: open mike how? do you need a crane to move the bow? how do you finger the thing? bring on paul bunyan! |
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27 Jan 05 - 09:35 PM (#1390799) Subject: RE: Giant Fiddle From: Bert Must be a Republican. |
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27 Jan 05 - 10:07 PM (#1390836) Subject: RE: Giant Fiddle From: wysiwyg It's no Chinese knockoff, that's for sure! ~S~ |
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27 Jan 05 - 10:42 PM (#1390864) Subject: RE: Giant Fiddle From: number 6 Thanks for posting this Sandy!! |
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27 Jan 05 - 10:47 PM (#1390868) Subject: RE: Giant Fiddle From: Gypsy Love it! |
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28 Jan 05 - 03:30 AM (#1390995) Subject: RE: Giant Fiddle From: GUEST,davy It'll never fit under yer chin!! |
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28 Jan 05 - 05:01 AM (#1391034) Subject: RE: Giant Fiddle From: Geoff the Duck And where do you buy the strings? Quack!! GtD. |
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28 Jan 05 - 06:00 AM (#1391068) Subject: RE: Giant Fiddle From: s6k Giant Guitar |
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28 Jan 05 - 10:18 AM (#1391257) Subject: RE: Giant Fiddle From: Den Only in Cape Breton. |
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28 Jan 05 - 01:16 PM (#1391496) Subject: RE: Giant Fiddle From: s6k Large-But-Not-Giant Drum |
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29 Jan 05 - 12:59 PM (#1392377) Subject: RE: Giant Fiddle From: GUEST,Sandy Prince edward Island champ. http://www.rainbowvalley.pe.ca/Rainbow/gallery/images/GIANT FIDDLE_png.jpg |
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21 Feb 05 - 09:55 AM (#1416377) Subject: RE: Giant Fiddle From: GUEST,ada You seen the big fiddle....wait until you see the mermaid playing the fiddle.....another masterpiece from our local artist Cyril hearn. Send comments or questions to cyrilhearn@hotmail.com |
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21 Feb 05 - 06:09 PM (#1416837) Subject: RE: Giant Fiddle From: Beer The Cape doesn't need Paul Bunyan. They have Angus McAskill. |
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21 Feb 05 - 07:20 PM (#1416924) Subject: RE: Giant Fiddle From: GEST Oh, my! This calls for a big cup of joe, eh? :-) |
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21 Feb 05 - 09:23 PM (#1417007) Subject: RE: Giant Fiddle From: Sandy Mc Lean http://www.macaskill.com/GeneralTallTales/Angus/angus2.html |
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22 Feb 05 - 08:14 PM (#1418090) Subject: RE: Giant Fiddle From: GUEST,Norval Alberta also has some big things: Vegreville Pysanka (Easter Egg, 31 feet) http://www.geocities.com/williamwchow/egg/e-egg.htm |
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23 Feb 05 - 08:00 AM (#1418562) Subject: RE: Giant Fiddle From: The Fooles Troupe Australia is the Land of Big Things. |
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23 Feb 05 - 07:21 PM (#1419025) Subject: RE: Giant Fiddle From: HiHo_Silver Giant Fiddle now plays Jigs, reels etc. continously. |
