{"id":1211,"date":"2015-03-15T22:09:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T22:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2015-03-16T00:19:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T00:19:36","slug":"fiddle-crimes-1-dundee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/2015\/03\/15\/fiddle-crimes-1-dundee\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiddle Crimes 1 : Dundee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Vaults-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1218\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Vaults-2.jpg\" alt=\"Vaults-2\" width=\"425\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Vaults-2.jpg 425w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Vaults-2-249x300.jpg 249w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Vaults-2-19x24.jpg 19w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Vaults-2-29x36.jpg 29w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Vaults-2-39x48.jpg 39w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many years ago, while researching the free-reed instruments in Scotland, I stumbled upon a number of references from the early twentieth century to criminal activity (theft, drunkenness, breach of the peace etc.) involving the accordion and was struck by the large number of cases\u00a0in and around Dundee. Why Dundee? It would appear that the accordion was not the only musical instrument implicated in such activity and that fiddlers were, and associated with, an unsavoury lot:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Humorous.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1213\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Humorous.jpg\" alt=\"Humorous\" width=\"567\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Humorous.jpg 567w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Humorous-282x300.jpg 282w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Humorous-22x24.jpg 22w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Humorous-33x36.jpg 33w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Humorous-45x48.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Fearn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1212\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Fearn.jpg\" alt=\"Fearn\" width=\"567\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Fearn.jpg 567w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Fearn-300x210.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Fearn-427x300.jpg 427w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Fearn-24x16.jpg 24w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Fearn-36x25.jpg 36w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Fearn-48x33.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vault was an old part of the town that had attracted the eye of many artists and photographers before it was redeveloped. In the painting of the site reproduced above and below\u00a0I was delighted to find both a melodeon and a fiddle player:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Vault-Detail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1219\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Vault-Detail.jpg\" alt=\"Vault-Detail\" width=\"425\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Vault-Detail.jpg 425w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Vault-Detail-273x300.jpg 273w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Vault-Detail-21x24.jpg 21w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Vault-Detail-32x36.jpg 32w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Vault-Detail-43x48.jpg 43w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More posts will follow on violin crime and on fiddlers in Scottish art in due course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, while researching the free-reed instruments in Scotland, I stumbled upon a number of references from the early twentieth century to criminal activity (theft, drunkenness, breach of the peace etc.) involving the accordion and was struck by the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/2015\/03\/15\/fiddle-crimes-1-dundee\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}