American fiddle
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American fiddle-playing began with the early European settlers, who found that the small viol family of instruments were more portable and rugged than other instruments of the period. According to Ron
Fiddler in Wichita Riverfest
Woman playing fiddle (right) with her family in a California migrant camp, 1939
Old time fiddle
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Old time fiddle is the style of American fiddling found in old-time music. Old time fiddle tunes are derived from European folk dance forms such as the jig, reel, breakdown, schottische, waltz, two-st
Bill Hensley, Mountain Fiddler, Asheville, North Carolina
Working lumberjacks playing fiddle 1943
The Bog Trotters Band, photographed in Galax, Virginia, in 1937