Welcome to a world of fiddles. A world bursting with celtic fiddles, American bluegrass, old-time and western swing fiddles, mariachi fiddles, klezmer fiddles, gypsy fiddles, jazz fiddles. Ancient fiddles from China and Mexico, Hardanger fiddles from Norway, a double-necked electric monster from India. A world teeming with fiddle players famous, infamous and obscure. Street fiddlers, million-selling fiddlers, mythical fiddlers. Five continents stomping and swaying to the music of countless interconnected fiddle styles.

This site brings them all together in an easily accessible format so you can dip in and out of the different styles and easily find out about the different types of instrument, ornamentation, repertoire, cultural history and background, find the best-known players and so on.

I've collected all this lot from friends, from books, from albums and from the web. I hope people will dip into it and might find something useful or interesting, and that they will get in touch

with opinions, corrections, disagreements, additions and so on.

Chris Haigh: As well as a writer and composer I'm a working fiddle player; the site also has links to my homepage (Chris Haigh) and to several of the bands that I work with, including my new Soviet Swing band The Kremlinaires, the East European band Tziganarama, the Klezmer jazz band Klezmania, and the Ceilidh band Quicksilver.

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