query: instrument tommy peoples
supports: The violin is a wooden string instrument in the violin family. It is the smallest and highest-pitched instrument in the family in regular use. Smaller violin-type instruments are known, including the violino piccolo and the kit violin, but these are virtually unused in the 2010s. The violin typically has four strings tuned in perfect fifths, and is most commonly played by drawing a bow across its strings, though it can also be played by plucking the strings with the fingers (pizzicato). Violins are important instruments in a wide variety of musical genres. They are most prominent in the Western classical tradition and in many varieties of folk music. They are also frequently used in genres of folk including country music and bluegrass music and in jazz. Electric violins are used in some forms of rock music; further, the violin has come to be played in many non-Western music cultures, including Indian music and Iranian music. The violin is sometimes informally called a fiddle, particularly in Irish traditional music and bluegrass, but this nickname is also used regardless of the type of music played on it. Fiddle is another name for the bowed string musical instrument more often called a violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music. Fiddle playing, or fiddling, refers to various styles of music. Fiddle is also a common term among musicians who play folk music on the violin. The fiddle is part of many traditional (folk) styles of music which are aural traditions, taught 'by ear' rather than via written music. Fiddle is normally the term used for Irish Traditional Music. The Donegal fiddle tradition is the way of playing the fiddle that is traditional in County Donegal, Ireland. It is one of the distinct fiddle traditions within Irish traditional music. The viol , viola da gamba , or (informally) gamba, is any one of a family of bowed, fretted and stringed instruments that first appeared in Spain in the mid to late 15th century and was most popular in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Early ancestors include the Arabic "rebab" and the medieval European vielle, but later, more direct possible ancestors include the Venetian "viole" and the 15th- and 16th-century Spanish "vihuela", a 6-course plucked instrument tuned like a lute (and also like a present-day viol) that looked like but was quite distinct from (at that time) the 4-course guitar (an earlier chordophone). Tommy Peoples ( born 1948 ) is an Irish fiddler who plays in the Donegal fiddle tradition . He was born near St. Johnston , County Donegal , in Ireland . He has been a member of well - known traditional Irish music groups , including 1691 and The Bothy Band as well as performing solo since the late 1960s . He plays in the unique fiddle style of East Donegal . After moving to Dublin in the 1960s , where he was employed as a Garda ( member of the Irish police force ) , he subsequently moved to County Clare and married Mary Linnane , daughter of Kitty Linnane , long - time leader of the Kilfenora Céilí Band . He now resides in his home village of St Johnston . His daughter Siobhán Peoples is a noted fiddler in her own right . Tommy Peoples is currently the Traditional Musician In Residence at The Balor Arts Centre , Ballybofey , County Donegal . In July 2015 he launched his self - published book `` Ó Am go hAm - From Time to Time '' . The book combines a fiddle tutor by Tommy , along with illustrations by himself and a complete notation of 130 original tunes by Tommy , again notated by himself . The book also includes many stories and incidents from his life , and musical career . The book is currently available direct from Tommy from his own website http://www.tommypeoples.ie / ,
candidates: fiddle lute viol viola violin
answer: violin