He must have tried every fiddle in the shop.
It was five years ago when I walked into a music shop and asked, "Do you offer fiddle lessons?" I was standing in a room filled with beautiful string instruments and felt like a stranger in a strange land.
That's the day to clean up the well-intentioned work that wasn't finished on Friday, fiddle around the house, play a little golf, shop, play with the kids, and take my wife out on a date.
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Just follow the muffled strains of a fiddle into a shambolic wonderland that's part junk shop, part cabaret.
Mr. Block made and sold sandals in a shop at 171 West Fourth Street, played the country fiddle and threw open his shop on Saturdays to jam sessions that drew not only musicians and fans but also tourists, who often crowded the sidewalk outside.
There's a sliding scale for the tip; each shop sets a base percentage, but you can fiddle with it at will, keeping the servers on their toes or posing as a high roller until the last dish comes.
Fleetwood, though, is partial to "Everywhere," only because watching Buckingham fiddle with it is like "watching a kid in a toy shop".
Restaurateurs plough wodges of cash into swanking up their restaurants, chefs fiddle and fuss to make a dish sparkle aesthetically, coffee shops waft the smell of pastry and roasted beans into the street to seduce passers by.
We first covered Moniker back in March when founders Dave Barry and Kevin Tully had already created a small guitar shop and wanted to expand into custom git-fiddles.
