Derek said:
>I seem to recall discussing this with Stuart Eydmann once- Stuart had some
>evidence that 'down bow on the first beat' was not so common among self-taught
>traditional fiddlers.
I was giving a fiddle workshop in Talinn, Estonia where a Swedish fiddler observed
that I always seemed to start on an up bow and that she had noticed this with a number
of other Scottish and Irish fiddlers. I am wholly self taught (ok, it shows!) and
therefore never had the teacher leading instruction pieces with the down bow or
telling me to start that way. Like the birls, I don't think about it infact I can't
think about it without falling off the fiddle.
Stuart
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