Welcome Charles, you've really got a pre there playing the fiddle: there you'll find the heart & expression possibilities of this soulful music. Not that loud noise maker we idiots try to master. Some advice? Forget it, but if you really must: C is the most used key, with a lot of music played in G. D makes more sense for fiddle tunes, Cajun, Irish, Canadian & old time country. For me i play my low G a lot with a fiddle based band i'm with right now. But when you play bluesy stuff with a guitar player an A comes to mind for the (myxolidean) key of E. If you like to sing with a lower range male type voice and also dig Zydeco a Bb. For fiddle you can do with just one fiddle, and maybe a second one tuned one note lower to FCGD, this is basically to please all them C accordionists. Far cheaper too .... Nout

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