Fiddler vs Violin - What's the difference?
fiddler | violin |
One who plays the fiddle.
One who fiddles.
* 2005 , Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, The drama of my life'' (in ''The Independent online, [http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/the-drama-of-my-life-483792.html])
A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus , of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle.
The common European sandpiper (Tringoides hypoleucus ); so called because it continually oscillates its body.
(musical instruments) A musical four-string instrument, generally played with a bow or by plucking the string. Pitch is set by pressing the strings at the appropriate place with the fingers.
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(music) A violinist.
As nouns the difference between fiddler and violin
is that fiddler is one who plays the fiddle while violin is a musical four-string instrument, generally played with a bow or by plucking the string. Pitch is set by pressing the strings at the appropriate place with the fingers.fiddler
English
Noun
(en noun)- We were the self-controlled, cautious, nifty merchants, decorous fiddlers of accounts, hoarders of wealth, excellent bribers, family and community creatures governed by manners.
violin
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(wikipedia violin)Noun
(en noun)- The first violin often plays the lead melody lines in a string quartet.