I have been playing the violin for years now.
Yeah? I usually call it more informally as the "fiddle". But it's a nice wooden instrument. Do you play classical or folk style music?
Classical! What is your preference?
Irish traditional music
Irish traditional music (also known as Irish trad, Irish folk music, and other variants) is a genre of folk music that developed in Ireland.
In "A History of Irish Music" (1905), W. H. Grattan Flood wrote that, in Gaelic Ireland, there were at least ten instruments in general use. These were the "cruit" (a small harp) and "clairseach" (a bigger harp with typically 30 strings), the "timpan" (a small string
Rock fiddle.
Rock fiddle, like rock music in general, owes much to American blues. Incorporation of fiddle or violin into rock, as with jazz, has been a slow process, resisted by some critics as an"unlikeliest and perverse misuse of an instrument". Rock has roots in folk music particularly the American folk revival of the 1960s, and thus as a matter of usage some writers refer to "rock fiddle" when discussing playing by classically trained musicians who join rock bands and thus import classical style rather than