Awesome!

So, I succumbed and went listened to the music and somehow ended up with the fiddle.  Guess what?  It's a five-string fiddle.  The guy did it himself.  He drilled a hole in the chin piece for the base of the C string which goes in between the G and D string fine tuners and on up the fingerboard.  It's peg sticks up vertically between the D and A tuners so the tuner is actually on the back of the scroll.  I don't know if that makes any sense or if anyone besides BonnieJean would care, but I was absolutely fascinated by it.  It's not a very good instrument, doesn't have a good ring to it, but I had never seen anything like it before.  Oh, and it turns out the fiddle player is actually one of the guitar players who's taking poetry with me this semester.