Thanks for the help and suggestions on how to attack the doubling up on strings. I started the fiddle at the ripe old age of sixty one and what I really wanted...
Hi, I live in Bayou Chicot and belong to the fiddle crazy group and I really enjoy playing with them. However I am a cajun and would like to learn how to play...
Hey, everybody, pretty quiet in here lately... i hope everybody is doing alright and real busy fiddling! Anyways, getting more familiar with cajun music, I...
HEY Everybody is it just me or do Violins made for Classical music look differernt than Fiddles. I don.t know they look different some how bigger or carved...
Announcing: Valentines Fundraising Program The Finger Finesse Violin, orginally developed as a hand position strenghthener and teaching aid is now adding...
Hi, if you get a chance, can you take a look at the info that I have below on Cajun jam sessions and musician resources to see if you know of any updates that...
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HI Everyone I was tuning and the string unralved from the fine tuner and i don.t know how to re string it, how do i wrap it around the peg again. its the...
Today is an important day for people from Acadie (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick) and theit descendants (amongst whom are the Cajuns of Louisiana). Canada finally...
It occured to me after downloading Yahoo messanger....the "mic" feature is pretty hi tech and effective to play over. I have cranked some tunes in Canadian...
MP3Rat is an easy to use and very intiutive mp3 player that can sort by keyword and has excellent tagging ability http://www.kaylon.com/mp3rat/ I've been using...
I've heard on KRVS radio two days ago that the accordeonist Kenneth Thibaudault was killed. He was a young player from what I gathered, and quite active......
In an email discussion with a very reputable Canadian fiddler he sent me this tidbit of information: Next year (2004) Gerry Holland from Cape Breton will be ...
Finger Finesse is an innovative hand position strengthener and teaching aid. This site links to exercises and drills for promoting finger independence and...
Hi everyone, this is Clarence, the Cajun and Zydeco DJ on KBRH 1260 AM Baton Rouge and the webmaster of www.cajunradio.org I wanted to ask you for your help...
Does anyone have a Coda brand bow they'd like to sell? Please e-mail me if you do! Thanks! -- Margaret Simon/Babi/Auntie Babi/Original Evil Hungarian Wench ...
Hi, everybody I've finally decided it's time to start working with some kind of slow down software, since my ears are just not trained enough yet to get stuff...
We found a great link on the net: it's to the site of KRVS radio acadie, which is live streaming on the net (you need windows media player). Right this instant...
... When will right handers ever quit defining instruments according to their own bias? I play nyckelharpa and have a left-handed one made in Sweden by Esbjorn...
I was just wondering if the name comes from the famous Acadian Evangeline, a fictive heroine of a poem that talks about the 'Grand Derangement', which is the...
A friend told me that for Cajun fiddling, the fiddle is tuned down a whole step, from G-D-A-E to F-C-G-D (low to high). I had never heard that before....
I was watching a foreign music video today, of a Swedish group, and one of the musicians had an interesting instrument. It was bowed, he held it into his ribs,...
HI Everyone . I found out what the problem is . the neck warped it has to be taken off and reset. i could tell for a long while now it didn.t sound right and...
Hey folks, I've heard about shaking guitars to try to get a vintage sound from a new guitar, check out this link to Acoustic Guitar magazine to learn more...
HI Everyone, anyone notice their Fiddles sound different when the Temputure goes up. mine had a really nice warm sound now it has no sound . I mean it just...
Hi, all fiddlers/musicians from Lafayette! I've been to the Acadian Peninsula, New Brunswick, in July, visiting my husband's family on Miscou Island. We went...
