Fiddle/Violin, Anyone?

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kiddiedoc said:
That's also in my list of possible new instruments.
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If you decide to go that route, I recommend checking out the Deering Goodtime banjos for a solid entry level instrument that you won't outgrow for quite awhile. Also look up Jack Hatfield's instructional books. He runs a shop outside of Gatlinburg where I got my banjo and has his own line of instructional books/CDs. I've has a lot of luck with them.
 
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I always wanted to try fiddle and wish I had followed through with that many yrs ago. Now just mess around with guitars and a baritone uke.

Still, I'd like to try and build a crude violin. I said a crude one. Realize that folks make something like violins out of turtle shells, gourds and cigar boxes. I think I could build a crude one, and I can't be talked out of trying.
 
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jjay2518 said:
If you decide to go that route, I recommend checking out the Deering Goodtime banjos for a solid entry level instrument that you won't outgrow for quite awhile. Also look up Jack Hatfield's instructional books. He runs a shop outside of Gatlinburg where I got my banjo and has his own line of instructional books/CDs. I've has a lot of luck with them.
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I own a Washburn now but want a pre-war Gibson. My uncle has 8 pre-war Gibsons and is a great banjo player. I'm trying to learn but still can't master cripple creek. My uncle taught Mike Snyder when he was a kid.
 
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joevol33 said:
There's actually a dulcimer shop not far from where I live on the Georgia/ North Carolina line.
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Go in there. Tell them you can't play anything, and that your buddy said they can teach you how to play a song on the mountain dulcimer in about 10 minutes. It'll be something simple, but you'll see how easy it is. Then check out the gazillions of youtube videos of free lessons and people playing it. If you love it and can swing the dough, get one. Then we will commence assembling the Volnation String Band.
 
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volinbham said:
I like how fiddle players always (almost always) do the those strokes at the beginning (counting in?) that sounds like they are getting the fiddle started.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bLHLJXUILA[/youtube]
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FYI
That's Merle Haggard singing , with Bob Wills doing the "answers" in the background
 
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jjay2518 said:
I've been teaching myself the banjo on and off for the past couple years. It's a lot of fun to play.
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I think the banjo would be fun. I graduate school in a few weeks, maybe I'll have time to pick up a hobby now.
 
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malinoisvol said:
Anyone play? I've never played one but I'm wanting to learn.

What would be a good one for a beginner?

Edit: Dear Lord! The prices on bows.
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Violin is a very difficult instrument to learn compared to other instruments. If you are wanting to just take a shot for hobby, give the banjo a whirl.
 
#39
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I would say the steel guitar would be the most difficult instrument to learn how to play. A fiddle or violin would be second, due to not having frets on the neck . Terribly hard to learn. I'd stick with guitar , bass, drums etc..
 
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I just picked up my banjo Saturday. I drove up for the O&W game (but never left the Half Barrel.....long story) and met a man over off of Chapman Hwy. It is my second one and I can't be more happy.
 
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barknoxbrawler said:
I just picked up my banjo Saturday. I drove up for the O&W game (but never left the Half Barrel.....long story) and met a man over off of Chapman Hwy. It is my second one and I can't be more happy.
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What brand did you get?

Happy picking.
 
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jjay2518 said:
Nice, I love my Goodtime.
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I had a cheaper made Ariat. It sounded ok and held a tune well. I was getting my rolls down and getting decently fast at Cripple Creek when I knocked it off the stand and broke the neck in two at the body. Needless to say....I'm proud I've got another one
 
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kiddiedoc said:
Funny, I have been thinking the same. Got a mandolin a few years back and it hasn't really held my attention.
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Good thing about that is if you have the chords down on a mandolin, then you're a jump ahead with a fiddle. Both tuned the same.
 
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