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八歲大的小提琴手：魁比(Hilda
Quebe)，1999年
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雅典鎮(Athens)的小提琴手競賽及重聚聯歡會
地方性遺產
您看過小提琴(fiddle)嗎？fiddle是小提琴(violin)的早期版本，它是一種來自於中世紀的歐洲樂器，有長長的頸子、圓圓的外形及三到五根弦，而在它的前面或背面則有用來放鬆或拉緊琴弦的調音弦軸。照片中的女孩只有8歲，但她的技巧卻足以參加德州雅典鎮的小提琴手競賽及重聚聯歡會。
東部的德州居民喜愛愉快的小提琴旋律。這也是為什麼他們每年都會前來參加此一盛事的原因。重聚聯歡會是小提琴手互相聚首的機會，而競賽則是小提琴手展示本身技藝的場合。參賽者的年齡小至8歲，大至80歲。裁判的評審則是以小提琴手的風格、技巧和最重要的一項：如何嚴密地重現懷舊提琴音樂。美國革命時，這個音樂曾鼓舞了福吉谷一役(Valley
Forge)的飢餓士兵，並深得班傑明富蘭克林及湯瑪斯傑弗遜的喜愛，一直到了現在，它仍能為數百萬人帶來歡愉。
Have you ever seen a fiddle? A fiddle is an early version of the violin -- it is a medieval European instrument with a neck, a rounded shape and three to five strings with tuning pegs on the front or back to tighten or loosen the strings. The girl in the photo is only 8 years old, but she plays the fiddle well enough to be in the Athens, Texas, Fiddlers Contest and Reunion.
The people of east Texas love a good fiddle tune. That's why so many of them gather every year for this event. The reunion is a chance for fiddling friends to catch up with each other, and the contest is a chance for fiddlers to show their stuff. Contestants range in age from 8 to 80. They are judged on their style and skill, and, most important, on how closely they re-create old-time fiddle music -- the music that gave courage to starving troops of soldiers at Valley Forge during the American Revolution, earned devoted admirers like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, and today continues to delight millions.
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