Encouraging developments

Since my recent return to fiddling, I have discovered that I no longer struggle to play my French fiddle. It has a rich, sweet tone in all registers and I appreciate its beauty. Although it is more difficult to tune than my Doetsch, which has fine tuners on all strings, I will still enjoy using the Boulangeot more frequently than before.

Today, I accompanied the Old Blind Dogs CD, "Gab O' Mey" as it played "Lochanside" on my stereo. Although I stumbled a few times at different spots, I thoroughly enjoyed playing along with the dogs at concert speed and repeated it several times. This is the first time I have ever tried doing such a thing and it was great fun.