File: arsenaultpeter06-oh-gettingstarted_M.mp3
Speakers-
PA: Peter Arsenault
KP: Curator Ken Perlman
KP: Tell me how you came to take up the instrument.
PA: One night we were on a thing called Sea Sail, we were in in New York City. Well Dad [Eddy Arsenault] and Hélène was there, and seven or eight of us from the region here. I've listened to fiddle all my life but that particular night, late at night for some reason I just got a big body rush, goose bumps all over from a fiddle tune. And I thought "Yeah I've gotta play." S.so a couple of weeks after that was all over I asked Dad to round up an old fiddle for me. And he said "Nah, don't get into that, you just got married you don't want to do that stuff." (laughs) So I said, "Yeah if you got an old fiddle I could use, I'd like you to fix one up for me." So I went back a couple of days later and he had one. Geez within a couple of days I could already play a couple of tunes. So that's where it kind of started up.
KP: Why were you able to play so quickly.?
PA: I'd been listening to Dad all my life kind of thing and I was already playing drums and harmonica so I wasn't totally non-musical. I guess the tunes were all up here [points to his head], I didn't know it. So I went to see Dad shortly after that and he made a tape for me of all his favorites.
