Difference Between a Violin and a Fiddle?

[onemoremisfit]

When I'm selling it to you, it's a violin. When I'm buying it from you, it's a fiddle.

[cadenholke]

A violin has strings, a fiddle has strangs

[dumbbo]

If you can waltz to it, it’s a violin. If you clan clap, stomp, whistle, and square dance to it, it’s a fiddle. 🍺

[matthewblackwood]

The difference is the way it played, what's being played on it

[mikeYagop]

As a country fan, I see this as an absolute win

[theviolingeek]

Great! gotta rock hall
shirt from my hometown!

[rhhh]

I thought it was just dependent on what music you were playing on it

[packadayhabit]

😂😂😂 I hope this becomes the official definition 👍

[BearWrestlingCoach]

The fiddle player in my Dad's bluegrass band maintains that the only difference is that someone's spilled beer on a fiddle.

[crankfastle]

A cello, a bass, and a violin walk into a bar…

[AnimeSunglasses]

...so, if you delicately spell champagne on it, does it turn back into a violin?

[imaginableAudio]

Here's the answer:

Violin=classical musician/jazz
Fiddle=country, bluegrass.

[_paul]

I've always told people that they're the same thing, but the world you're in will change the terminology you use. Like, I shred with my rock friends, I play with my classical friends, and I blow with my jazz friends.

[iambadatcomingupwithcomeba]

I just make up stuff and tell people fiddles are 7/16 of an inch bigger and are tuned differently by a half sharp

[ninjaking]

As my dad would say (As a joke ofc): “The intelligence of the listener”

[zacerax]

It would've been funny if you played something classical but then after the beer you hoe down 🤠

[FernandoChaves]

Funny. My mother learned violin when she was a young girl. I am 57. She died years ago. I grew up in a log cabin, listening to bluegrass at summer picnics. It turns out my mother had an actual Stradivarius. Was it a fiddle? LOL! No, it was not a reproduction.

[WilburAndACrazyPen]

A violin walks into a bar and encounters a country band playing music the violin has never heard before; country music, the violin wants to join in, as it finds this new music exciting and now he goes by fiddle

[BlackCat-aka-Jewels]

Lol Lindsey Stirling was asked this by Kelly Clarkson
Thstvwas epic lol

[MariadaPenhaRothschild]

wish I was dum dum diddle
your darling fiddle
ABBA