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Comment by Jim Morris on May 17, 2015 at 3:28am

Thanks much Bug! Thanks for your help with the research. It's actually 300 or so years since Antonio Stradivarius and Guarneri perfected this stuff and some really fine makers in present time strive hard to duplicate what those guys did. I love taking a couple of my better sounding fiddles to actual luthiers and getting pointers but even more satisfying is their reaction to what they think might sound like crap actually being OK. One professional maker/repairer told me "this isn't too bad" with a surprised look on his face. That's as close to a compliment as I've ever gotten from one of these guys!

Comment by Jim Morris on May 17, 2015 at 3:16am

Angelina. I like that! In the movie when the fiddle player plays "Ruby With the Eyes That Sparkle" to his daughter (Renee Z) it's actually an old fiddle tune called "Shove That Pig's Foot Further in the Fire"  The author Charles Frazier did a lot of research on the music as well as the history.

Comment by BUGGY (C) on May 17, 2015 at 3:08am

100 years of fiddle making perfecting and you have just proved you can do it and less than half the time with a stick and a box... lol

It sound great JIm... (hmm now back to the concept of how a bell is made ;>) )

Comment by Uncle John on May 17, 2015 at 2:50am

I might have to watch that movie again.   About the 7th time.   A good one I saw recently (minimal music) was the Homesman.   Good movie, better book. 

Jim, maybe Angelina is the name for this fine fiddle.

Comment by Jim Morris on May 17, 2015 at 2:05am

Thanks Unc. Yup, I got the soundtrack CD for Cold Mountain so I could listen to the great music. I'm real happy with this fiddle since I worked out thos problems.

Comment by Uncle John on May 17, 2015 at 1:59am

Oh, Jim.  That sounds great.   Love the sound and the singing and song.  

Reminds me of the fiddling from the movie Cold Mountain.  

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