Fidheal Mhor A'Cheilidh
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Review from Brian S.
1/6/2010 3 photos
A
really
big
fiddle
Fidheal Mhor A'Cheilidh, or more colloquially known as The Big Ceilidh Fiddle is the largest fiddle in the world. It weighs more than ten tons, is over 42 feet high and has a bow over 50 feet tall.
It was made to reflect and symbolize the musical and especially the fiddle tradition of Cape Breton. Everything is made accurately in scale and the fiddle strings and bow are constructed with aircraft cable. The whole thing can actually be played, if of course they was someone large enough to play it.
There are a lot of great fiddle traditions around the world but Cape Breton certainly has one of strongest and most vibrant. For a relatively small area The Cape has an incredible list of brilliant fiddlers. Natalie and Buddy MacMaster, Ashley Mac Isaac, Paul Cranford, Brenda Stubbert, Jennifer Roland have been playing great music for decades and a whole crop of new fiddlers like Rachel Davis and Kimberly Fraser are now starting to make their marks.
The whole cape is dripping with music and it seems an endless supply of great fiddlers live there. If you travel around Breton on the Cabot Trail you will see people in small towns playing music everywhere. Old people that can hardly stand up will be sawing on fiddles and dancing away, young guys will be honking and hooting away on bagpipes and young kids that look like they are from the movie Deliverance will be plucking on banjos.
The Ceilidh Trail School of Celtic Music is located on Cape Breton and allows people to intensively study subjects like Celtic music and dancing, traditional fiddle or even bagpiping.
The Big Ceilidh Fiddle is a symbol that lets people know that they are entering a land where music and especially fiddle music is something very sacred.
A link of Cape Breton music:
http://www.youtube.com...Listed in: Very cool places...., Strange Places, In the wild, wild north, music stuff
