I remember waiting for my PC to load up and then I picked up my fiddle and played enough tunes so that the PC was well into its standby mode by the time i put it down! I've never been like it before!
I sleep on my left side every night, with my left hand tucked under the pillow, roughly at the same angle I hold the fiddle at. My right hand usually drops down to the same position I hold the bow in while I sleep too. This is helpful for when I'm fiddling in my dreams. If I sleep in any other position, when I want to dream fiddle I have to change myself all around, it's awfully inconvenient!
Least you say aside from your wife. My husband complains I don't talk to him anymore. Once I've done the evening meal, it's upstairs to the music room. It used to be a bedroom but I got rid of the bed and had a hard floor put down for better acoustics!!
Only two more days work before this year's festival season kicks off!!
Are you only started the fiddle it is very like that at first
more so if your Younger. I use to up in the middle of the night
for fear I had forgotten a bit of the tune I had just learned.
Just plucking the strings with my thumb, Once my mum got
up for she thought she'd heared something ,, She came into
my room and said '' Are you Mad'' - Little did I know then,,
jim,,,
Yup. That's me. I broke my bow once as a child, being forced to play classical. I was hitting it on my bed, yelling, "I hate it, I hate it, I hate it!"
Now that I'm newly into Irish trad, it's the opposite story -- have had to "ban" my fiddle from my office while working or otherwise don't get any work done. I spend too much time reading Session posts too, trying to glean any info I can. On the bright side, it's better than being addicted to, say, meth or something!
Totally addicted, but I do stop occasionally (and pick up the mandolin). I have a spare at work and practice in a cupboard. Couldn't last 8 hours. Like a true addict I resent being deprived of my fix.
There's an element of binge behaviour as well---it's hardest to be away for the weekend and not have a chance to spend a day or two at the fiddle all day (an hour here, an hour there, basically all day long).
My addiction started one summer, when I was 11. My mother took me far away (across town) to a big castle, where a bunch of us little kids sat in a room with wonderful, aromatic wood paneling and made noises on beautifully carved wooden instruments. The hook was well set.
(The "castle" was Stadium High School in Tacoma, Washington--see http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM1GQ9
The movie "10 Things I Hate About You" was filmed there.)
I keep playing it to avoid doing my A Level work.
I learnt 12 new tunes off by heart over the Christmas holidays, and 3 more over the February half term just to avoid writing essays...
I get sudden fidde cravings at 2am when everyone's in bed: tried playing with the mute on once, but generally have to content myself by listening to fiddle music instead.
Ever since I found out about folk music, the fiddle has been the extension of my arm(s) While I was learning classical as a kid, I barely practiced, but now...
When my fiddle got cracks before Christmas and I had to take it to be repaired, I was first in hysterics (why, why did it happen) and then climbing the walls, not being able to play. Piano, tin whistle and singing just did not feel the same. Imagine being without a fiddle for four weeks in a row...
The other night, just before midnight, I was roused from sleep by the piercing wail of a fire alarm. Groggy, I stumbled out of bed, pulled on a pair of shoes and and overcoat, and made my way for the door. I was reaching for the knob when a thought occurred to me: I can practice fiddle, unmuted, and *no one is going to complain about the noise*!
Then I smelled smoke and opted to leave the building, an act of self-preservation that I interpret to mean I'm not *that* far gone.
it's not the fiddle. it's whatever that fateful thing is, that activates the center in your brain, heart or soul that is waiting to be activated. and yes, concertina is addictive.
Yes!!!
I've been playing the fiddle for many years and performing for a long time to and when I get started on a good song there is no way that I will stop until I just can't play anymore
Is the fiddle addictive?
Is the fiddle addictive?
I find myself that it is extremely hard to put it down, everything else is getting in the way of it, even my true love!
Work is an 8-hour wait...Holidays is even worse...
Fiddleitis?
Who is totally hooked?
# Posted on February 19th 2008 by Shylock
Re: Is the fiddle addictive?
Over here!
I remember waiting for my PC to load up and then I picked up my fiddle and played enough tunes so that the PC was well into its standby mode by the time i put it down! I've never been like it before!
# Posted on February 19th 2008 by I ♥ Dow
Re: Is the fiddle addictive?
Since I was 7. Evil disease. (HA!)
I sleep on my left side every night, with my left hand tucked under the pillow, roughly at the same angle I hold the fiddle at. My right hand usually drops down to the same position I hold the bow in while I sleep too. This is helpful for when I'm fiddling in my dreams. If I sleep in any other position, when I want to dream fiddle I have to change myself all around, it's awfully inconvenient!
# Posted on February 19th 2008 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: Is the fiddle addictive?
You're not alone. I think I'm a fiddle-holic, too, and I'm not looking for any 12-step cure, either.
# Posted on February 19th 2008 by nofrets
Re: Is the fiddle addictive?
I think it's safe to say that SWFL Fiddler is more addicted than me
# Posted on February 19th 2008 by I ♥ Dow
You guys are really sick!
Jaysus! That sounds really bad!
Fiddleholics is right!
A disease worse than the plague!
# Posted on February 19th 2008 by Shylock
Re: Is the fiddle addictive?
Fiddle is life. Aside from my wife, the rest is details.
# Posted on February 19th 2008 by Fanning
Re: Is the fiddle addictive?
Least you say aside from your wife. My husband complains I don't talk to him anymore. Once I've done the evening meal, it's upstairs to the music room. It used to be a bedroom but I got rid of the bed and had a hard floor put down for better acoustics!!
Only two more days work before this year's festival season kicks off!!
# Posted on February 19th 2008 by Tarrantella
Re: Is the fiddle addictive?
Are you only started the fiddle it is very like that at first
more so if your Younger. I use to up in the middle of the night
for fear I had forgotten a bit of the tune I had just learned.
Just plucking the strings with my thumb, Once my mum got
up for she thought she'd heared something ,, She came into
my room and said '' Are you Mad'' - Little did I know then,,
jim,,,
# Posted on February 19th 2008 by FIDDLE4
Re: Is the fiddle addictive?
Flute is addictive too. Hard to hide in the middle of the night though. And yes, work is a dreary 8 hours of intolerable waiting.
# Posted on February 19th 2008 by sbhikes
Re: Is the fiddle addictive?
Yup. That's me. I broke my bow once as a child, being forced to play classical. I was hitting it on my bed, yelling, "I hate it, I hate it, I hate it!"
Now that I'm newly into Irish trad, it's the opposite story -- have had to "ban" my fiddle from my office while working or otherwise don't get any work done. I spend too much time reading Session posts too, trying to glean any info I can. On the bright side, it's better than being addicted to, say, meth or something!
# Posted on February 19th 2008 by swillybay
Re: Is the fiddle addictive?
Totally addicted, but I do stop occasionally (and pick up the mandolin). I have a spare at work and practice in a cupboard. Couldn't last 8 hours. Like a true addict I resent being deprived of my fix.
# Posted on February 19th 2008 by RichardB
Re: Is the fiddle addictive?
Yes.
# Posted on February 19th 2008 by c.g.
Re: Is the fiddle addictive?
Yes, I quit smoking after 31 years cold turkey with not one craving. I CAN NOT go one day without playing my fiddle.
Mary
# Posted on February 19th 2008 by Antikhntr
Re: Is the fiddle addictive?
Re: Padraig O'Keefe and "the missus"
Padraig always called his fiddle "the missus" and never married.
Having been married and divorced I wished I had learned his lesson.
# Posted on February 19th 2008 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: Is the fiddle addictive?
haha
i am not this addicted yet but then i suppose there is definately time!
# Posted on February 19th 2008 by frafyduck
Re: Is the fiddle addictive?
There's an element of binge behaviour as well---it's hardest to be away for the weekend and not have a chance to spend a day or two at the fiddle all day (an hour here, an hour there, basically all day long).
# Posted on February 19th 2008 by kennedy
Re: Is the fiddle addictive?
Yes.
My addiction started one summer, when I was 11. My mother took me far away (across town) to a big castle, where a bunch of us little kids sat in a room with wonderful, aromatic wood paneling and made noises on beautifully carved wooden instruments. The hook was well set.
(The "castle" was Stadium High School in Tacoma, Washington--see
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM1GQ9
The movie "10 Things I Hate About You" was filmed there.)
# Posted on February 19th 2008 by John Galt
Re: Is the fiddle addictive?
I keep playing it to avoid doing my A Level work.
I learnt 12 new tunes off by heart over the Christmas holidays, and 3 more over the February half term just to avoid writing essays...
I get sudden fidde cravings at 2am when everyone's in bed: tried playing with the mute on once, but generally have to content myself by listening to fiddle music instead.
# Posted on February 19th 2008 by Purfling
Re: Is the fiddle addictive?
Ever since I found out about folk music, the fiddle has been the extension of my arm(s)
While I was learning classical as a kid, I barely practiced, but now...
When my fiddle got cracks before Christmas and I had to take it to be repaired, I was first in hysterics (why, why did it happen) and then climbing the walls, not being able to play. Piano, tin whistle and singing just did not feel the same. Imagine being without a fiddle for four weeks in a row...
# Posted on February 19th 2008 by noranoreen
Re: Is the fiddle addictive?
"My right hand usually drops down to the same position I hold the bow in while I sleep too"
Braggart!
:-8
# Posted on February 19th 2008 by ethical blend
Re: Is the fiddle addictive?
HA! No no, just creepy and partially insane.
OK, here's one for all of us:
What do fiddlers use for birth control?
Their personalities.
# Posted on February 19th 2008 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: Is the fiddle addictive?
...the sleeping position, I mean, not me! I'm just flaky, not creepy.
# Posted on February 19th 2008 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: Is the fiddle addictive?
The other night, just before midnight, I was roused from sleep by the piercing wail of a fire alarm. Groggy, I stumbled out of bed, pulled on a pair of shoes and and overcoat, and made my way for the door. I was reaching for the knob when a thought occurred to me: I can practice fiddle, unmuted, and *no one is going to complain about the noise*!
Then I smelled smoke and opted to leave the building, an act of self-preservation that I interpret to mean I'm not *that* far gone.
I can quit anytime I want to.
(4 hours until I get to play it again...)
# Posted on February 20th 2008 by Tall, Dark, and Mysterious
Re: Is the fiddle addictive?
You don't have to be obsessive-compulsive to play an instrument, but it helps
# Posted on February 20th 2008 by Hup
Re: Is the fiddle addictive?
I don't know about the fiddle, but the craic is!
# Posted on February 20th 2008 by rob_handel
Re: Is the fiddle addictive?
it's not the fiddle. it's whatever that fateful thing is, that activates the center in your brain, heart or soul that is waiting to be activated. and yes, concertina is addictive.
# Posted on February 20th 2008 by ceemonster
Re: Is the fiddle addictive?
Padraig O'Keefe had the habit of borrowing someone else's "missus"......all night long. ; )
# Posted on February 20th 2008 by Lint - upon - Tweed
Re: Is the fiddle addictive?
HA HA! Again, more reason for me to follow his wisdom! Listen to your elders!
# Posted on February 20th 2008 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: Is the fiddle addictive?
Yes!!!
I've been playing the fiddle for many years and performing for a long time to and when I get started on a good song there is no way that I will stop until I just can't play anymore
# Posted on February 20th 2008 by muellehn
Re: Is the fiddle addictive?
I didn't play the fiddle until I went to a party and somebody handed me one. Then I got one, the another, then another...
Now I've got a bunch of them, and each one is different.
Nope, not addictive.
# Posted on February 21st 2008 by Fiddleshed
Re: Is the fiddle addictive?
My wife wants to know who this "Luciel" is I am always talking about.
# Posted on February 23rd 2008 by islanda