The fiddle is a musical instrument of the bowed string family.[1] A musician who plays the fiddle is called a fiddler.
History
Daemon II Blackfyre used the alias "John the Fiddler" during the time he pretended to be a hedge knight, complete with a sigil including two fiddles.[2]
Recent Events
A Clash of Kings
Fiddle, Harp, and horn are played at the Harvest feast in Winterfell.[3]
During a feast in the Great Keep of Pyke, musicians play fiddles, skins, and drums.[4]
During the Battle of the Blackwater, fiddlers and pipers play a merry tune in the Queen's Ballroom of Maegor's Holdfast.[5]
A Storm of Swords
Fiddlers, alongside many other common men, have joined the brotherhood without banners.[6]
Drums, horns, fiddles, and pipes are played at the Red Wedding.[7] While the Starks are being slaughtered in the hall, the unknowing Lord Edmure Tully impregnates Roslin Frey in a bedchamber,[8] with fiddlers performing outside of the room to prevent Edmure from hearing the sounds of battle.[9]
During breakfast in the Queen's Ballroom, musicians stroll among the tables, fiddling, fluting, and piping.[10]
A Feast for Crows
An ensemble of fiddles, pipes, a flute, and a high harp perform during the wedding feast of King Tommen Baratheon and Margaery Tyrell.[11]
Lenwood Tawney fiddles during a feast at Nagga's Cradle.[12]
Robert Arryn is soothed by the high harp, but frightened by flutes and fiddles.[13]
A Dance with Dragons
In Wyman Manderly's secret room in the New Castle, Davos Seaworth hears pipes and fiddles close by.[14]
Owen the Oaf fiddles at the wedding feast of Sigorn of Thenn and Alys Karstark.[15]
Known fiddlers
- Daemon II Blackfyre[2]
- Dareon, also a harpist, singer, and aspiring songwriter[1]
- Lenwood Tawney[12]
- Owen the Oaf[15]
Quotes
I suppose that means I'll have to take the throne, then. I would much rather be teaching you to fiddle.[2]
—Daemon II Blackfyre, as "Ser John the Fiddler", to Duncan the Tall
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 15, Samwell II.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 The Mystery Knight.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 21, Bran III.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 24, Theon II.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 57, Sansa V.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 17, Arya III.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 51, Catelyn VII.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 33, Jaime V.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 38, Jaime VI.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 59, Sansa IV.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 12, Cersei III.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 18, The Iron Captain.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 41, Alayne II.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 29, Davos IV.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 49, Jon X.