I played guitar for a few years in my younger days but had to quit due to lower back problems. A few years ago I started to get into traditional music and wanting to play an instrument again, so I bought a cheapo fiddle to see if I could play it without the old pains acting up. I can!
Now I am taking lessons and practicing as much as work and personal commitments allow. I hope in a few years I will be good enough to turn up to a session and enjoy it as a player, not just a listener!
Ack...an update some 3 years later....more injuries, this time to my arms, and I had to quit playing the fiddle (and my job) for about a year and half. I have been a non-fiddling fiddler as long as I have been a fiddling fiddler! Still, I can now manage to pick out a tune again, although fiddling is one of the activities I still have to restrict for fear of re-injuring myself...
...so I started playing mandolin too.
Tunes in Mercurius's tunebook: 2
| Discussions | Re: carbon fiber vs. composite vs. wood bows | August 9th 2008 |
| Discussions | Re: Transatlantic sessions | May 11th 2008 |
| Recordings | Last Tune on Track 9 | November 30th 2007 |
| Discussions | Re: Fiddle stringing help and kinds of strings | November 21st 2007 |
| Tunes | G Mix on the Lau record? | November 4th 2007 |
| Name | Type | Key |
|---|---|---|
| The Maid Behind The Bar | reel | Dmajor |
| Drag Her Round The Road | reel | Eminor |