Chai explains that although it’s the same physical instrument, he holds the bow differently when it’s fiddle music than when it’s classical violin.

"I started playing violin when I was 4. I got super burned out [in middle school], so my violin teacher just taught me fiddle music for three years," Alexander says.

Fairhope-based concert violinist and fiddler Tom Morley has released a new book, 'Learn to Play Irish Trad Fiddle,' which combines his love of playing Irish traditional music with his decades of ...

A fiddle certainly looks like a violin and they sound similar. And some say 'fiddle' when they mean 'violin' - it's a favourite word of Nigel Kennedy's. So is there a difference?

Guest blogger and musician Michael Pahn prefers his fiddle to a violin, though they are the same instrument ...

But Erwin not only fiddles in his leisure time, he also teaches violin and Scottish fiddle as his occupation. Scottish fiddle music can be compared to Irish tunes in that they are slower, more ...

Lark jokes that the difference between the violin and fiddle is “the violin has strings and the fiddle has strangs.” She plays the same instrument for both styles, a violin on loan from the ...

Fancy Fiddle Violin virtuoso Mark O’Connor gets heroic with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra John Pitcher Mar 1, 2007 ...

Therefore, fiddle being used mostly for country, bluegrass, and traditional kinds of music, while violin is primarily referred to classical music.

The main difference between these two instruments is that a violin is typically associated with classical music and a fiddle is associated with folk music or bluegrass, where players have more ...