Gloria Ince - fiddle

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Music you listen to in the car …

Always classical

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Favourite Scottish tune or musician …

Too many to name.

 

Other types of music or music groups you are involved in …

A community orchestra and a church band

Your day job …

Work for the Department of Communities in the Education & Care Regulatory Unit

 

Other passions (beside music!) …

Cooking and good food

 

Favourite activity with Perth Scottish Fiddlers …

Sharing my music with friends and family at our gigs, seeing people smiling, tapping their feet, children dancing to it

 

What you do like about playing with Perth Scottish Fiddlers …

It’s a friendly, inclusive community

 

Favourite non-Scottish music …

Anything by Tchaikovsky

 

Pets … do they like music …

We have a galah. He can whistle

 

Was it hard to learn to play by ear …

I always like Celtic music. It speaks to me, be it fast and furious, or slow and sad. Before I joined the Scottish Fiddlers, I used to try and learn on my own from a tune book. It was rather lonely and unstimulating. The group opens up a new world for me. Now I prefer to play by ear than to read the ‘dots’.

 

Anything else …

My violin (in its 90’s) has been passed on to me from several persons in the family. It has also travelled a few continents.