When the fiddle appears in a country song, it is undeniably the loudest and most piercing instrument on the track. It can whine, it can hiss, it can do many things the guitar can and cannot. One might ...

Whether you’re listening to Patti Smith’s cover of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” or versions of Jethro Tull’s “Locomotive Breath,” it’s not all that uncommon to hear fiddle, especially in later versions ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peter Xiong / EyeEm / Getty Images Any Southern native, or transplant for that matter, has a general idea of what a fiddle is. You ...

Irish fiddler Kevin Burke is always tickled to play in Tucson. “I often think this kind of music we play is typically wet-weather music,” Burke said in a phone interview from Portland, Ore., his home ...

At its most basic, the Modular Fiddle can be played like any other violin. But creator David Perry designed this instrument to explore the many different physical component shapes and tones made ...

Before she first picked up the instrument at age nine, Natalie MacMaster had long admired her uncle for his style of Cape Breton fiddle music. “I guess I first started listening to him when I was in ...