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- Title
Cape Breton.
- Authors
Cranford, Paul
- Abstract
The article discusses the fiddle style in Cape Breton Island which have been influenced by the pipes. It points out that fiddle has taken over the pipes as the main dance instrument and a fiddler would play for a hundred dancers in small rural communities. It notes how new technology changed the fiddlers' accessories, techniques and repertoires as players found that wound steel strings or synthetic core strings give a quick response. It suggests that one will not develop the all-important swing intrinsic to Cape Breton fiddling if the dancer is ignored.
- Subjects
CAPE Breton Island (N.S.); NOVA Scotia; FIDDLING; FIDDLE tunes; MUSICAL style; PIPE (Musical instrument)
- Publication
Canadian Folk Music, 1985, Vol 19, Issue 3, p13
- ISSN
0829-5344
- Publication type
Article