Ok, erm,.. woops..eek; tripped up. Gosh! So many fine and Posts, yes. you're rather good you know, like the woman in a basque the other night: you're really rather beautiful and I never really noticed. Well, ok, I did. She was as well. A fiddle is the same as a violin; the difference is contained within the manner of holding it and the composure of one's left wrist [that is, if the player is right handed, and on the sinister list perhaps this isn't the right thing to say] a violinist usually distances the shoulder from the base of the instrument via a 'chin rest' (although some of the best players manage to dispense with this) and their left had is crooked at the wrist so as to facilitate dexterous (!) movement of the fingers up and down the strings and over them. A fiddler, on the other hand, rests his palm on the underside of the neck, which does the job required in folk music but would end up lacking in that required of some of the works in the classical canon. Or so the theory goes. If one progresses to Shoenberg, on can get out a saw instead, and I've heard that the Aphex Twin owns a submarine. Which is more undersea than underhand. "Hullo! What a jolly gigue! Now tell me, is this a periscope here?" Sandy Denny: isn't that a girl? One moment... darnit! he's not on my 'French Affair' double CD compilation but I've seen the name around Pl. Ste. Michel. I'll just have to listen to the theme tune to 'Emanuelle' then. Ooh.. and Je T'Aime.. comes right, left all over afterwards. I should shave but I won't! so there! Veni veni veni wrote the leacherous monks behind Carmina Burana, which reminds me of fiddling... whilst Rome burns, or the madness of King George the III, or, delusions of grandpa. Deleuze-moi. I have an idea.I shall attempt Morningside Crescent. Gordon +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+