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  11. 9ofspades said: So… I guess that answers my question ^^;
  12. 9ofspades said: valuable their instrument is. So that person might dismiss it as an old fiddle, while the well-dressed expert would probably be more likely to call it a violin. I’m guessing Odin played the expert in that particular gambit; it seems more like him.
  13. 9ofspades said: @adayania Oh hey thanks for responding! :) I actually play violin, so I wouldn’t be a random person in a diner, but (a) the gambit involves selling to the proprietor or host, not some random customer; and (b) the person “reluctantly” selling the violin could easily refer to it as a “fiddle” since that person’s character is someone who’s poor and plays for coins and is too uneducated to know how
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  22. threefrognight said: Saying the fiddle and violin aren’t the same are like saying that the instrument played by jazz musicians and the instrument played by classical musicians isn’t the same thing. It’s the same instrument. It’s being used differently.
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    I guess that I had understood that a fiddle had a slightly flatter bridge. I.e. it was less curved so as to allow for 2...
  31. mcroft said: “a violin has strings and a fiddle has strangs”. – my favorite fiddler’s favorite joke.
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    Same!  And I can’t even read sheet music yet I knew this!   And there are people trying to justify the assumed...
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    In American Gods, why did you choose for Wednesday to use a violin for the two-man con instead of the more traditional...