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The Fiddle Book: The Comprehensive book on American folk music fiddling and fiddle styles, including more than 150 traditional fiddle tunes, compiled from country fiddlers Review

The Fiddle Book: The Comprehensive book on American folk music fiddling and fiddle styles, including more than 150 traditional fiddle tunes, compiled from country fiddlers
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I love this book. Marion Thiede not only writes a good story behind the tunes, she also did a wonderful job transcribing the fiddle tunes in both traditional & altered violin tuning in a way a classically trained violinist can understand & includes several pictures of historic, old time fiddlers.
I was expecting the appearance of the book to be like the picture shown, with the black & white cover, etc. Instead, I received an old, hard fabric bound, discarded library book from Loudoun high school library...car dealers call it "Bait and Switch". (thus, only 3 stars)
The description says (I cut & pasted this from the seller's statement) The Fiddle Book: The Comprehensive book on American folk music fiddling and fiddle styles, including more than 150 traditional fiddle tunes, compiled from country fiddlers (Paperback)
I do like (and will keep) the book, but would have preferred that the item I actually received would have been shown on the seller's page.

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The most comprehensive collection of traditional fiddle tunes ever compiled. Over 150 tunes, familiar and obscure, with lyrics. Transcribed from the playing of country fiddlers.

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The Fiddler's Fakebook Review

The Fiddler's Fakebook
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Printed in 1983, the Fakebook remains the undisputed champion of music references for fiddlers, and it's aided a fair number of other non-fiddlers as well.
Inside its broad covers you'll find nearly 500 tunes from the various fiddle traditions. Jigs, reels, hornpipes, rags and breakdowns, each clearly labeled for origins (Irish, bluegrass, French-Canadian, old-time, etc.) and including a short list of recordings where the tune can be heard. Just flip it open randomly for a taste of its contents, and imagine the sound of tunes like "Haste to the Wedding," "Leather Britches," "The Munster Buttermilk," "Drowsy Maggie," "The Wind That Shakes the Barley," "Hanged Man's Reel" and "Great Big Taters in Sandy Land."
Eight pages of textbook materials -- music theory, history and culture, style and genre -- give a wonderfully brief overview of the things you'd like to know without loading the book down with endless information which, frankly, can get in the way of the tunes and make it too bulky for carrying. Better still, the book is held together by a sturdy plastic binding which allows you to plop it down on your music stand with ease. There's nothing so frustrating as a music book with tight bindings which make it impossible to play straight from the page.

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