The earliest known representation of a guitar fiddle complete with bow[8] (fig.
We may not look upon this type of guitar fiddle as due entirely to western or southern European initiative; its origin like that of the type approximating to the violin is evidently Byzantine.
Thereupon the music master had asked for the loan of the battered fiddle a few minutes, and he would show him how the Arkansaw Traveler should be played all the way through.
But I was just fiddle hungry, boys, and I felt I must have the thing.
It makes Amos homesick, I guess, to remember how he won’t be able to touch a fiddle again for a whole month.
Amos evidently was having more or less trouble in making the old fiddle behave.
He could make that fiddle fairly laugh and weep by turns, as he coaxed the vibrating strings.
By gum—but ye kin make thet ole fiddle o’ mine talk some.
They could hear Amos and Sallie talking, as though they had become great friends in the short time they had known each other; though Teddy guessed that the magic fiddle had drawn them both together, more than anything else.
Indeed, Teddy had more than once regretted that he had decided against the other bringing his old fiddle along.
With a satisfied grin, he once more tucked the end of the old fiddle under his square chin, and began to draw the bow squeakingly across the taut strings, presently starting off upon the desired tune.
The fiddle seemed to moan and laugh and even sob, as the delighted Amos drew his magic bow over the strings, until the whole vicinity appeared to be filled with strange spirit voices.
It is too bad to get away with old Crawley’s fiddle just when he’s gone and learned how to start on the second part of “The Arkansaw Traveler,” after waiting so long.
At one time the adventure had threatened to develop into a tragedy, but somehow, with the advent of that old fiddle on the stage, it had changed to a comedy, bordering almost on a farce.
And I tell you, Amos can just make his fiddle talk.
Do you think Marjorie is going to play second fiddle to a new mother?
He had not asked me if I thought that Jack would play secondfiddle to a new father, but that, too, may have been in his mind.
Every fiddler, he had a fiddle, And a very fine fiddle had he; Twee tweedle dee, tweedle dee, went the fiddlers.
If I should give my fiddle, They'll think that I'm gone mad, For many a joyful day My fiddle and I have had.
Drugg tucked thefiddle under his chin and began to scrape away.
He followed his visitor in, and as his fiddle lay on the counter near at hand, he took it up.
The fiddle and the bow have been laid away on the shelf for a while, I hope.
Father will play thefiddle for you, and you can hear it.
The wailing of thefiddle floated out upon the warm afternoon air.
This was father's violin--fiddle 'most folks call it.
Having got the fiddle into his possession, the laird commenced tuning it with great assiduity, and with a bow stroke that showed he was well practised in the use of the instrument.
Put my fiddle against the grog, and then all's square.
Jemmy was two days in the cave before the arrival of the boat, during which he made himself a great favourite, particularly with Lilly, who sat down and listened to his fiddle and his singing.
Tum tum, tumty tum--said the fiddle of Jemmy Ducks, as if it took part in the conference.
Not only had Greenberg to play second fiddle on these grand occasions, but he had to iterate "Pom" as a sort of musical accompaniment in the pauses of his rival's vocalization.
Uncle John was waving his handkerchief from the window as a signal to Wampus; Dan'l had laid aside his fiddle and seized a revolver in either hand, and the Major had caught up two more of the discarded weapons.
Dot brute Tim, he come unt ask me to fiddlefor a dance.
It was after nine o'clock when, riding Comet, he saw the schoolhouse lamps winking at him through the oaks and heard the merry music of fiddle and guitar in the frolic of a heel-and-toe polka.
Chase Harper's voice from within rose above the fiddle and guitar, calling for the quadrille.
What he couldn't coax from a fiddlein the way of melody would have to be developed by an Ole Bull.
Does he crave relaxation, there is Mr. Peacock's Dance Hall, called sometimes the Bird Cage, where to the lively observations of the fiddle he shall loosen the boards of the floor until refreshed.
Cimarron, in a gush of hyperbole, "you could play a fiddle with your feet!
At that moment the sound of a fiddle was heard, and the smiling rascal who played it, stopping his melody for an instant, made a low and sweeping bow, which took in the vicar, the squire and the gentry generally.
Then he clapped his fiddle under his chin and without more ado struck up "Bobbing Joan.
He bowed to right and left, as to an audience politely applauding, and, lifting the table and its burden, withdrew; while old Bob again set his fiddle to his chin and scraped the preliminary measures of a quadrille.
III This fiddle was the village pride-- The mirth of every fête enhancing; Its wizard art set every heart As well as every foot to dancing.
VIII Ah, who shall lead the Sunday choir As this old fiddle used to do it?
The songs of him hushed the singing-birds on the tree, and the fiddle he would play to take the soul out of your body.
He had hisfiddle in his hand, and he played about all our lives.
While I was musing upon the recollections thus accidentally summoned up, I heard the sound of a fiddle from the mansion of Compere Martin, the signal, no doubt, for a joyous gathering.
A fiddle on my Daughter, she's a Chick of the old Cock I profess; I was just such another Wag when young.
He sat there with his slender legs coiled up on a stump, and drew the wonderful notes from his fiddle without any apparent effort, just as though the music was in him, and had to find an outlet somehow.
I reckon that must be your Boy Wonder with the fiddle and the bow, Elmer.
He had brought his fiddle with him, which would n’t be of much use here, though he used to pick up money by it at home.
I went over all that Ántonia had ever told me about his life before he came to this country; how he used to play the fiddle at weddings and dances.
If I called you just now grossly immoral it's on account of the spectacle you present--a spectacle to be hidden from the eye of ingenuous youth: that of a man neglecting his own fiddle to blunder away on that of one of his fellows.
