XPost: rec.music.classical.recordings, rec.music.makers.bowed-strings   
   From: kathnews2@optusnet.ieatspam.com.au.dud   
      
   Citizen wrote:   
   > On a related note, I notice that I've always heard Itzhak Perlman   
   > refer to his instrument as a fiddle.   
      
   My 88 year old grandma who played violin for most of her life (classical)   
   often refers to it as a fiddle. Definately as a term of affection! Perhaps   
   also a generational thing?   
      
   I just found out while talking to her last week that she was all set to go   
   overseas (ie out of Australia) as a young performer in her late teens, had a   
   backer and everything, but the war started so she couldn't :(   
      
      
   --   
   Katharine   
     The early worm gets eaten by the bird, so sleep late.   
      
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