Hello, Last month I bought myself a second fiddle on the internet. A,again, cheapy model which I bought specially for practicing.It's a electric silent fiddle....
I'm not sure if there's a standard. I think strings are used to adjust the individual properties of an instrument. Properties I've heard talked about for a ...
Thanks for your opinion Dwight. I found a shop on the internet some time ago that presented their fiddle/violin strings for the type of music you needed them...
I need to try those Helicore strings. The most common strings I see set up on cajun fiddlers around here (Lafayette, LA) are Thomastik Dominant. When i...
"gregsonnier" <gregsonnier@...> wrote: <snip> ... That I find interesting. The Dominants have a perlon core. They say one doesn't get the ultimate sound out of...
I've got a book/CD called The American Fiddle Method, by Brian Wicklund. It takes some old-time Americana songs and uses them to teach more and more complex...
I meant to ask, is that with a fiddle designated to be played down and not periodically tuned up (possibly necessitating having a second fiddle for when...
Hi Dwight, I have Craig Duncan's book. I bought it off the internet. I also bought Deborah Greenblatt's book "The Cajun Fiddle Tune Book". I can read music but...
My solution: get a second fiddle. Otherwise, I don't know which is more forgiving. Seems like either of them is going to get stretched and not recover...
I have both of those books. However, I'm spoiled by the American Fiddle Method book and am looking for something that lends a bit more hand-holding. It comes...
Where I take group fiddle classes the program is very much against reading music. There's one teacher who will write things out in tab (after teaching the tune...
There's that yellow book, "Ye Yaille chere", by Raymond Francois. Very thick. More songs than Ann Savoy's book, because there's no interviews like in Ann's...
Also, I don't know if they're only fiddle tunes. But he does them from a fiddler's perspective. He does some funny business about transposing them to make...
I'm looking at getting a lower keyed accordion. Some of my songs I sing with my C box are already at the limit of my range, and then I get throat problems, it...
Dear All, I just read in the Lafayette Advertiser that Mitch and Lisa Reed's store, Louisiana Heritage and Gifts, closes Feb.19th. Their website is down and...
This is sad to hear. I loved their selection of resources for learning Cajun French. In what way do you surmise it to be a disappointment for them, Sue? Susan...
Well, that's a shame. Never did make it by there. ... ____________________________________________________________________________________ Expecting? Get...
Personally, if a business I had started ended up failing, particularly one aimed at supporting a culture, I'd probably be a bit disappointed. From what I...
Thanks Dwight. I hadn't understood that the business failed, but that they'd simply moved on. I'm not always good at reading between the lines. What else is...
I'm assuming it failed, as they've been struggling, doing fundraisers, etc. Probably the closest thing to their store is Marc Savoy's shop in Eunice, and its...
Well i just lost a large amount of text that I wrote up about Mitch and Lisa's effort to the Cajun culture. But it got lost cause i took too much time before...
I don't post much, but I was there fiddling for the last jam. They served gumbo and it was a barn burner all afternoon. Mitch and Lisa, two of the most smiling...
I'm green with envy. Thanks for sharing, I loved reading about your Cajun fun. Susan in Minnesota where we have blue ice On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:06:14 -0000...
Hi Mark, thanks for this info. Could you please post the location of the Vermillionville jam? Heading down there next month - it sounds like the place to go...
Betsy, if you're flying into regional, it's across the street from the airport http://www.vermilionville.org/visitorinfo.html The address is 300 Fisher Road,...
