File: doucettejoe-oh-howlearned.mp3
Speakers:
JD – Joe Doucette
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
JD: I was 6 years old.
KP: How did you go about learning to play the fiddle?
JD: How'd I go about it? Go hide somewheres with the fiddle so I wouldn't give my mother a headache. And then, once you got a note or two, you remember, see? Probably 3 or 4 notes of a tune or on a slow piece, then you could play and get another one. It took a long while, but then after you did get a start it was natural. It just came natural. You don't have to look at the violin or look what you're doin'. And there's no frets, no nothin' on a violin. But yet you don't have to look where you put your fingers when you play, once you get it mastered to a certain extent. But I'm a long ways from being a master or professional, I can tell you that.