Leonard Bernstein, the famed orchestra conductor, was once asked about the most difficult instrument there is to play. His reply was almost spontaneous: The Second Fiddle. “I can get plenty of first ...

ONALASKA, Wis.—Robert Gallagher learned to play fiddle when he was 12. Back then, his dad was known to fix a fiddle or two with the help of the family horse. “My dad used to pull hair from the horse’s ...

Henry Mabe from Walnut Cove, North Carolina has played fiddle since his father bought him one from a pawn shop. The family didn't have a fiddle player in their band and got Henry to learn to fill the ...