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Playing Since: 2007
Experience Level: Purty Good
bj has made 1 recent addition to Fiddle Hangout 
Interests:
[Jamming] [Socializing] [Helping]
Occupation: Web Developer
Gender: Female
Age: 59
My Instruments:
My main fiddle is a hard used but wonderfully sounding D. Salzard that's about 130 years old, with a one piece back to die for, and appears handmade. My second fiddle is a very early Suzuki Nippon that looks like it was repaired by a backyard body mechanic with Bondo and epoxy, but manages to sing quite nicely. And I have an early 20th c. German Strad which is plain-plain-plain until you put the bow to her, when she turns into Cinderella at the Ball, with Dark Rich Tone. And I've got a 4th fiddle that's a german trade fiddle, a project I am currently working on, and a 5th that's a german trade, probably a Mittenwald, that needs work that I picked up recently at the flea market. I've also got a couple basket cases that came in recently. One's repairable, an amateur made fiddle from New York, but it needs the whole pegbox/scroll grafted. The other is for parts.
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
First and Foremost, the Gypsy King himself, Stefane Grapelli,
Stuff Smith,
John Hartford,
April Verch,
Regina Carter,
Joe Venuti,
Buddy Thomas,
Chubby Wise,
Owen Chapman,
Dwight Lamb,
Liz Carroll,
Tommy Jarrell,
Lester McCumbers,
Elmer Rich.
Snake Chapman,
Ed Haley,
Jehile Kirkhuff
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Created 4/13/2008
Last Visit 5/10/2013
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Size: 1,978kb, uploaded 8/1/2008 6:13:16 PM
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LOL! I blew the last note something terrible! But the rest of the song is passable, at least for me. I'm dating this so in a few months I can revisit it and have something to compare with.
8-1-08
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Size: 1,049kb, uploaded 11/24/2010 1:36:36 PM
Genre: Old-Time
Just a demo for a fiddle for sale. The recording isn't the best, just a simple cheezy computer microphone, so the volume level is kinda low. The playing is not wonderful since this fiddle is shrimpy and I couldn't get a shoulder rest to stay on, causing some instability and uncharacteristic left hand noise, but at least it gives you an idea of how this fiddle sounds. It's also closer to a classical setup, rather than the fiddle setup I'm used to. Given all that, the fiddle itself sounds pretty decent for what it is, at least to my ears.
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Size: 5,060kb, uploaded 6/20/2009 2:15:24 PM
Genre: Old-Time
Recorded at the Phillipsburg NJ Oldtime Jam on May 12, 2009.
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Size: 7,067kb, uploaded 6/20/2009 2:24:56 PM
Genre: Old-Time
Recorded at the Phillipsburg NJ Oldtime Jam on May 12, 2009. This is a PA tune collected by Bayard from fiddler Sarah Armstrong of Derry PA.
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Size: 2,105kb, uploaded 10/28/2008 6:40:47 PM
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Size: 2,432kb, uploaded 8/15/2008 8:30:53 PM
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Okay, so I sound less awful. Look Ma, no squeaks! Well, maybe just one or two . . . better though.
This is adapted from the version the Druckenmillers have on their CD, and they attribute their version to Dave Bing.
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Size: 6,455kb, uploaded 7/31/2008 9:03:00 PM
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My friend Suze and I wrote this. She's playing guitar and singing lead, I sing harmonies. I wrote the lyrics, she wrote the music. We had the studio time booked and I came down with bronchitis two days before. So I asked Bill to turn my volume down so you couldn't hear my frog croak voice.
And I'm working on a fiddle part for it. This was recorded before I even took up the fiddle.
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