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The shortest answer to this question is that a violin and a fiddle are structurally the same instrument, but it can certainly be argued that a fiddle is its own entity. "I started playing violin ...

The answer, in Perlman’s case was at 3 1/2, after he’d heard Jascha Heifetz playing on the radio in his family’s tiny Tel Aviv apartment. But, he’d thrown down the violin in frustration ...