[Dixielandjazz] Fiddle-Horn

[Bill Gunter]

Hi all,

I just wrote:

"listmate Ittzas Tomas over in Hungarly . . . "

I of course meant "Hungary."  I'm working with my laptop computer while away 
from home and I hate these damned awkward laptop keyboards!  I keep hitting 
wrong keys!

Yuck!

Bill Gimyrrt
jazzboard at hotmail.com


>From: "Bill Gunter" <jazzboard at hotmail.com>
>To: jobriant at sunrisetelecom.com, dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
>Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Fiddle-Horn
>Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 19:47:30 +0000
>
>Regarding the Stroh violin, listmate Ittzas Tomas over in Hungarly plays 
>one
>with his ragtime band. He also plays a normal violin and great ragtime
>piano.
>
>It's amazing how much volume that Stroh fiddle can produce!
>
>Cheers,
>
>Bill Gunter
>jazzboard at hotmail.com
>
>
> >From: <jobriant at sunrisetelecom.com>
> >To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> >Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Fiddle-Horn
> >Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 11:13:47 -0800
> >
> >Roy (Bud) Taylor wrote:
> >
> > > [At] ... to the Rochester Philharmonic Holiday Concert
> > > ... the annual visit by Santa Claus was set up this
> > > year because "he always wanted to play with an orchestra".
> > > ... After some small talk, he pulled his instrument out
> > > of the pack on his back and proceeded to play a jazzy
> > > Stephan Grappelli version of "Santa Claus is Coming To
> > > Town".  [The violin] ... had the expected neck and
> > > bridge assembly, but was amplified not by a wooden
> > > body, but a brass neck that hooked up from the bottom
> > > of the strings aiming up at a 45 degree angle away
> > > from the player and bell that looked like it could
> > > have been from an old alto horn.
> >
> >Sounds like a Stroh-Violin to me.
> >
> >However, according to pictures on a manufacturer's website and at
> >Wikipedia, the Stroh-Violin had the bell but not the traditional
> >sound-box of a wooden violin. See:
> >
> >http://www.strohviolin.com/
> >
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroh_violin
> >
> >http://historywired.si.edu/object.cfm?ID=46
> >
> > > ... Could this have been an instrument from the early
> > > days of acoustic recordings when sound level was a
> > > premium, ...
> >
> >Precisely.
> >
> > > ... or just a construction thrown together by Santa's elves?
> >
> >Since a true Stroh Violin doesn't have the violin shaped sound box and
> >Santa's fiddle did, it may have been a "home-made" version, made by
> >highly skilled elves who live at the North Pole, or course.
> >
> >Jim O'Briant
> >Tuba
> >Gilroy, CA
> >
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