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MAKING MUSIC

Meeting Challenges




Fiddle
Canada
Made by Charles-édouard Ouellet
1978
Canadian Museum of Civilization

  Fiddle - CMC no. 81-130 / Photo: Harry Foster

     

Crafted by a fiddler, the back and ribs of this fiddle are of maple, and the soundboard of spruce. Many musicians also make musical instruments. These instruments are the ones most often used to play traditional music at dances and in fiddle contests.

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