Rhodes played banjo, bass fiddle and developed his comic character.
Fisher learned to play the bass fiddle with the group and claimed he was one of the first to play the instrument in a country band.
He is usually accompanied by a bass fiddle, guitar and guitarrilla (a small guitar like a mandolin).
The bass drum was tuned to enhance the bass fiddle with sympathetic vibration.
Later, he learned to play guitar and then bass fiddle and violin.
It is usually accompanied by a bass fiddle, guitar and guitarrilla (a small guitar like a mandolin).
They are usually accompanied by a bass fiddle, guitar and guitarrilla (a small guitar similar to a mandolin).
In folk and bluegrass music, the instrument is also referred to as a bass fiddle or bass violin (or more rarely as doghouse bass or bull fiddle).
