Fiddle < DnD

-- Main.NeilMurray - 13 Nov 2008

---+ Fiddle

An ancestor of the modern violin, the fiddle<br /> is a small, portable, stringed instrument with a body<br /> shaped rather like an hourglass. Four or five strings<br /> made of gut or sinew stretch across the body, anchored<br /> by pegs at the end of a long, thin neck. A separate<br /> piece, called the bow, is a long, thin piece of wood<br /> strung with fine strands of animal hair. Fiddles vary in<br /> length between 2 feet (for Medium-size fiddlers) and<br /> 18 inches (for Small fiddlers). To play the fiddle, the<br /> musician holds it horizontally, typically with the base<br /> tucked under his or her chin, and draws the bow back<br /> and forth across the strings.<br /> <br /> The fiddle is popular among bards who prefer lively<br /> dance music (reels or jigs) over serene but detached<br /> "pure" music. Though it is welcome almost anywhere,<br /> the fiddle is the favorite instrument of kobolds, whose<br /> clever hands mastered its fingerings ages ago. (They<br /> insist that they invented the fiddle, but other races<br /> find that claim dubious.) Kobold minstrels and halfling<br /> bards typically caper about while playing, showing<br /> their audience an example of the lively dancing their<br /> music encourages. Musicians of other races usually sit<br /> or stand to play the fiddle.
---++++++ Bardic Music

_Like the other two prime bardic<br /> instruments, the lute and the lap-harp, the fiddle<br /> enables the performer to maintain one bardic music or<br /> virtuoso performance effect while initiating another.<br /> Thus, a bard could maintain a countersong effect on<br /> one listener while inspiring courage in others._

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