Fiddle and violin.
 

I am not a instrument person...I like listening to music of quite a few different styles and genres.

I was always under the assumption that they were different instruments. I assumed they sounded different because they were different, not because of how they were played. Ill be damned.

http://www.youtube.com/shorts/VzcYF2INBWk

If you ever get a chance to go to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn check out the display of violins Henry owned. Seems he purchased five of them from the Wurlitzer family in NY. Paid $100k in 1929. Two of them are Stradivarius violins that are now worth millions. Seems Henry referred to them as fiddles. Story goes he couldn't play that well but he did enjoy get togethers with live fiddle music (square dances).

Lady at museum said they take one out every now and then and let some of the orchestra members play it.

That last part is pretty important, according to my reading. Word has it they age poorly if they don't regularly get vibrated in a musical instrument kind of way. Sounds a tad woo woo, I'll admit. Same is thought to be true of acoustic guitars.

Violins were relatively easy to get compared to many other instruments. There's so many people playing them in orchestras, professional and amateur both.

I looked through the pics and I confirmed it. One of the Stradivarius there called "The Siberian" was dated 1709:eek:.

Wow!