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Pronunciation: [fˈɪdləz] (IPA)

"Fiddlers" refers to musicians who play the violin or fiddle. However, there are many synonyms for this term, depending on the genre of music. In traditional Irish music, fiddlers are also called "ffiddlers" or "fidlers". In country music, they might be referred to as "fiddle players" or "fiddlers". For classical music, they can be called "violinists". For jazz music, they might be referred to as "jazz fiddlers" or "swing fiddlers". Additionally, there are many colloquial terms for fiddlers such as "fiddleheads", "fiddlin' folks", or "fiddle fiends". Each of these terms denotes a different style of music and captures the unique characteristics of the fiddler's style of playing.
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Usage examples for Fiddlers

There are four groups of musicians alongside, harpists, singers and fiddlers, all within the ship's length on the quay, and others in boats alongside.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
We are just talking about having in the fiddlers to-night for the children to dance, and sending for little Rosemary Hedge and the Grandiere girls and boys, and your particular friend, Roland Bayard.
"Her Mother's Secret"
Emma D. E. N. Southworth
These two handsome lads, after making their bows to Mr. and Mrs. Force, went to find Wynnette and Elva, to engage them for the first dance, to be in good time, although the negro fiddlers had not yet taken their places.
"Her Mother's Secret"
Emma D. E. N. Southworth

Famous quotes with Fiddlers

  • The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
    Charles Kettering
  • There is one thing about , though, that held my attention all through the evening: Try as I might I could only discern two fiddlers.
    Dorothy Parker
  • The only vestige of these musical vagrants now remaining, is to be found in the blind fiddlers wandering about the country, and the ballad singers, who frequently accompany their ditties with instrumental music, especially the fiddle, vulgarly called a crowd, and the guitar. And here we may observe, that the name of fiddlers was applied to the minstrels as early at least as the fourteenth century: it occurs in the Vision of Pierce the Ploughman, where we read, "not to fare as a fydeler, or a frier, to seke feastes."
    Joseph Strutt
  • But are sailors, frequenters of fiddlers' greens, without vices?
    Herman Melville

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