FIDDLE

FIDDLE Perhaps the best-known instrument in all of country music, the fiddle has a long-standing place in the traditional musics of the British Isles and Appalachian and southwestern America. One of the first questions asked by new listeners is what's the difference between the fiddle and the violin? Actually the difference does not lie in the structure of the instrument—although many fiddlers modify their violins in several important ways—but in the style of playing the instrument. The fiddle…