Dry and dusty (fiddle tutorial)

[@sophiew8589]

From australia I'm keen to raise this one in future fiddle sessions :) the brittany haag version is beautiful thanks chris!

[@TheFiddleChannel]

You're welcome Sophie!

[@Fetahfdfi]

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[@Redeyefiddler]

Whoop for Benny!

[@jilliennebowers1177]

Hi, Chris. Where can I get the Brittany Haas sheet music?

[@TheFiddleChannel]

send me an email to [e-mail]

[@gusgarelick852]

Nice contrast of styles. I think the earliest recorded version was by the Morrison Brothers, from Mountain View, Arkansas, recorded sometime in the 1920s. Their version is in D cross tuned, and people still play some of the Morrison Brothers tunes back in the Ozarks (the Ozark Folk Center in Mt View has a closely guarded collection of those tunes). Kenny Baker moved it up to a more strident key of E, with a bit more syncopation. I heard Brittany Haas play the tune at a contest in Cloverdale, CA, many years ago, when she was still a teenager.

[@TheFiddleChannel]

Thanks Gus!

[@btryba]

Hi Chris! Another great video! As for the tuning going up. I've noticed, as a beginner with the fiddle, as I tune up my DAE strings the G string goes flat and if I relax the DAE strings the G goes sharp. I'm guessing the tailpiece slants ever so slightly. Maybe the other strings are relaxing over night causing something similar. I do have a quick question. You always are so well researched on everything. Have you ever, or do you know why a lot of Celtic fiddle players choke up their bow hold 3 or 4 inches on the stick? Does it provide better balance or something? After watching some documentaries, including yours, I think that folk and baroque music has similarities in the use of ornamentation, and maybe the bow hold is a carry over from the way to hold a baroque style bow, but I am curious what your thoughts on this bow hold are.

[@TheFiddleChannel]

Hi Benjamin. Interesting question about the short bow hold. I have always assumed that this was because the players were self taught, and playing that style of music they never felt the need for full length bows. I know that some of the very best players use this hold, but I've never heard one of them justifying or explaining it. I suspect if they could easily trade for a conventional hold, they would do so! You're right about the links with baroque music- you can hear this clearly in Swedish folk music. But I doubt that there's any connection with bowing.