{"id":12,"date":"2015-01-11T23:22:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T23:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.riddellfiddles.scot\/wordpress\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2025-06-10T11:59:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T10:59:38","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.riddellfiddles.scot\/index.php\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Learn to play the fiddle today with Riddell Fiddles at the Catholic Church hall &nbsp; in Selkirk, Scottish Borders.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Riddell Fiddles aims to allow anybody to learn the fiddle, by providing inexpensive fun-filled lessons for young and old alike. It is an ongoing teaching programme run on a termly basis. Anyone wishing to visit or attend any of the sessions or workshops should contact the organisers first.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Originally a fiddle group Riddell Fiddles has now branched out to include performances, and guitar accompaniment, run by Donald Knox. A double bass player (Tony Manning) accompanies most classes. The emphasis is on performing with musicians working together and listening to each other.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Fiddle Lessons and Guitar Accompaniment Classes are&nbsp; held in the Catholic Church Hall, Selkirk, in the Scottish Borders, on Tuesdays, see <a title=\"Calendar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.riddellfiddles.scot\/wordpress\/index.php\/calendar\/\">diary dates&nbsp;<\/a>for details.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Each lesson consists of groups and will last approximately 50 minutes. This includes time for a short break\/snack (provided) and will let us learn a few exercises to untangle \/ loosen wrists and shoulders as well as to listen to different types of music. Parents are welcome to stay during a child&#8217;s lesson (most end up playing the fiddle themselves). Coffee and biscuits are provided.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Tuition is provided by&nbsp; local tutors, but visiting musicians are called on to give a workshop if they are playing locally.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_100\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.riddellfiddles.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Harrisons-Hot-Springs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.riddellfiddles.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Harrisons-Hot-Springs-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"These are the people who run Riddell Fiddles!\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">These are the people who run Riddell Fiddles!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn to play the fiddle today with Riddell Fiddles at the Catholic Church hall &nbsp; in Selkirk, Scottish Borders. Riddell Fiddles aims to allow anybody to learn the fiddle, by providing inexpensive fun-filled lessons for young and old alike. It is an ongoing teaching programme run on a termly basis. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","column","threecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riddellfiddles.scot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riddellfiddles.scot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riddellfiddles.scot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riddellfiddles.scot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riddellfiddles.scot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.riddellfiddles.scot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6917,"href":"https:\/\/www.riddellfiddles.scot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/6917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riddellfiddles.scot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}