Fiddle
Everything published on Viyolens under Fiddle — reviews, buying advice and how-tos written for players and producers in the UK.
Electric Fiddle for Beginners: A Complete Guide
Nothing about your playing needs to change. Here's a gentle, unhurried way into amplification for a nervous first-timer.
Tuning a Fiddle for Beginners: A Complete Guide
Worried one wrong turn will snap a string? Here's a safe, unhurried, step-by-step way through your first few fiddle tuning sessions.
Tuning a Fiddle Explained: Features, Types and Tips
That quiet ritual before a session starts, explained properly: how fiddle tuning actually works, and why it's built on fifths.
Everything You Need to Know About Electric Fiddle
The same instrument, given the means to hold its own on a loud stage. Here's a gentle introduction to what an electric fiddle is and where it came from.
Fiddle: A Complete Buyer's Guide
Buying a fiddle is about more than price — setup, strings and bow quality all matter as much as the instrument itself.
Common Fiddle Mistakes to Avoid
Most problems in fiddle playing come from a handful of avoidable mistakes — here is what they are and how to prevent each one.
Fiddle for Beginners: A Complete Guide
Starting the fiddle is about choosing a tradition and a community as much as learning the instrument — here is how to begin correctly.
Fiddle Explained: Features, Types and Tips
A fiddle is a violin played in folk and traditional music — here is how it differs in technique, tuning and regional tradition from classical violin playing.
Common Tuning a Fiddle Mistakes to Avoid
Every one of these mistakes made at least once, usually by someone in a hurry. None are complicated to fix — they just need saying out loud.
Tuning a Fiddle: A Complete Buyer's Guide
You don't need much to tune a fiddle properly, but the little you do need matters. Here's what's actually worth spending on.
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Electric Fiddle
Electric fiddle options for folk and crossover players needing clear, amplified sound on stage or in the studio.
Fiddle
Choose a fiddle for folk, traditional and acoustic playing, with lively response and comfortable handling.
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Tuning a Fiddle
Practical tuning information for fiddle players, helping achieve stable pitch and a balanced sound.
