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Steve and Sue -- Fiddle and Guitar
From being interested listeners and sporadic plunkers on the guitar
to being fully immersed in playing music feels a lot like
jumping in without knowing if you can touch bottom, which you
can't so you might as well settle in and ride the waves. And what a ride it has
been. Both fun and challenging,
playing music has broadened our world in a
great way.
Some years back
Steve
decided he wanted to learn to play the fiddle. Since he didn't have one
on hand, he built one. His octave
violin turned out beautiful and pleasing. He started playing
and I dusted off
the guitar. It was fun and we started collecting fiddle tunes.
As nice as the octave violin was, they
really needed a regular fiddle. After a start with a cheap
fiddle (later to be cut apart and turned into an electric
practice fiddle for which it was better suited) he found his
"real" old German fiddle -- what a delight. Fiddle
music abounded in the house, and the cats even seemed to enjoy
it (to our great surprise).
We learned some
tunes and ventured out into
the world. Thanks to a wonderful array of patient U.P. jam
musicians we learned much more than we would have had we
stayed home. It's a sharing kind of music. We soon found ourselves well immersed in that
lively entrancing circle of traditional music.
There is no end
to where one can go with music; there are so many areas
to explore and tunes to discover. We're having a good time with
both the old and the
new -- tunes, songs, musicians, and friends -- sharing our music, and discovering something new almost
every day. It will be nice to share some of that music with you!
And if you've been thinking of diving in yourself? Do it! It's
fun.
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