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Playing Since: 1973
Experience Level: Purty Good
fiddlepogo has made 6159 additions to Fiddle Hangout 
Gender: Male
Age: 58
My Instruments:
Two Knilling 4KF models:
One, labeled "Bucharest" dated 2006 and bought new. It's sounding sweet.
Another, bought on eBay is possibly from about 2000, does not say "Bucharest"
and smells funny when the weather gets warm-
could it be of Chinese origin?
I go back and forth which I like better- right now the smelly one is my cross-tuned fiddle...
which is what I bought it for actually! The Romanian one is strung with Thomastik Precision Lights (steel), the other with Prims, and I use Kaplan Premium rosin.
I recently bought an Eastman VL100 still strung with D'Addario Pro Artes.
It's mellower than the other two, and is especially well suited for waltzes, Irish tunes, Bluegrass, and probably Swedish tunes too.
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Formative influences: William Stepp, Luther Strong, Tommy Jarrell, Bunt Stephens, Franklin George, Earl Collins, Tom Sauber,
John W. Summers, Jean Carignan,
Hubbard & Molk. Many of the key ones were downbow fiddlers.
Recently I like Erynn Marshall, Matt Brown, Chirps Smith, and Michael Garvin...
I like the Bruces- Greene and Molsky too, also Jehile Kirkhuff's Pennsylvania Old Time fiddling.
Bluegrass: I heard the Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys and the Bluegrass Cardinals, also Byron Berline with somebody or other at McCabe's Guitar shop in the early '70s. I also had an LP of the Stanley Brothers, and found a cassette version of the same album a couple of years back. So I'm really mostly into the older Bluegrass styles. I can sing the bass part (barely) in the quartet singing since I'm a low baritone.
Even more recently (YouTube is expanding my fiddling mind!)
I like the Quebe Sisters Band (yeah I know their not Bluegrass!), Craig Duncan, Graham Townshend, Gilles Apap, and the Voetberg Family Band.
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Created 6/27/2007
Last Visit 9/10/2010
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Got into Old Time Clawhammer at the beginning of college in the L.A. area-
got involved in the Old Time music scene down there '72-'76.
Moved to Northern California, and got rather isolated, but kept playing on my own
till 1990, when I traded my fiddle away 'cause I wasn't playing it. Took up fiddle again in May 2005. Chops are mostly back, but the left
hand is still a bit shaky... I have my good and bad days!
It's hard not to dabble a bit in other genres, including Scandinavian, Irish, Scottish, and Bluegrass fiddling.
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