{"id":1377,"date":"2015-07-24T20:05:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T20:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2015-07-24T20:16:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T20:16:20","slug":"before-the-fiddle-4a-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/2015\/07\/24\/before-the-fiddle-4a-poland\/","title":{"rendered":"Before the Fiddle 4a : Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/07\/Poland-Drawing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1379\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/07\/Poland-Drawing.jpg\" alt=\"Poland Drawing\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1147\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/07\/Poland-Drawing.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/07\/Poland-Drawing-262x300.jpg 262w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/07\/Poland-Drawing-893x1024.jpg 893w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/07\/Poland-Drawing-600x688.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A bit closer to home now. There has been something of a mini fiddle revival in Poland of late led by the enterprising musician Maria Pomianowska who has worked with organologists and luthiers to devise and play various &#8216;new&#8217; instruments of the fiddle family based upon museum examples and iconography.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/07\/Poland-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1381\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/07\/Poland-2.jpg\" alt=\"Poland-2\" width=\"209\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/07\/Poland-2.jpg 209w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/07\/Poland-2-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can visit her website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pomianowska.art.pl\/en\/the-work\/instruments\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/07\/Poland-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1382\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/07\/Poland-3.jpg\" alt=\"Poland-3\" width=\"250\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/07\/Poland-3.jpg 250w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/07\/Poland-3-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Maria Pomianowska<\/p>\n<p>See also this <a href=\"http:\/\/lamus-dworski.tumblr.com\/post\/84669519154\/wojciech-gerson-polish-1831-1901-drawing-of-an\" target=\"_blank\">site<\/a>. At least one of her revived instruments relies on the fingernail method and it has been suggested that the Pollish models\u00a0might be the missing link between the instruments of the east and of times before the modern violin. The resulting instruments are certainly fascinating and the sounds endearing. Might this be how Scottish fiddle music might have sounded. Did the Scots play similar instruments? With the fingernail method? Why did the Scottish fiddle revival not go down this route? Should we play them now? Has the train already left the station?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/07\/Poland-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1380\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/07\/Poland-1.jpg\" alt=\"Poland-1\" width=\"475\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/07\/Poland-1.jpg 475w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/07\/Poland-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/07\/Poland-1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit closer to home now. There has been something of a mini fiddle revival in Poland of late led by the enterprising musician Maria Pomianowska who has worked with organologists and luthiers to devise and play various &#8216;new&#8217; instruments &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/2015\/07\/24\/before-the-fiddle-4a-poland\/\">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-1377","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\/1377","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=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1386,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions\/1386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}