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By Deb Boddxhn
Put 50 fiddlers ia a five-room house where they're
forced to practice anywhere from the front porch to the
edjs eft bathtub and what have you get?
Why, th American Old-Ttee Fiddlers Association, of
course.
According to DeLores Dellyke, association president,
the first fiddlers organization in the UJS. wu estshlihed
in Lincoln in 1946. DeRyke wis the founder of the
association. She invited fiddlers from the Lincoln area
into her home to "preserve the fiddlfeg tradition."
Dellyke has become an expert in fiddlirs since die has
founded the Lincoln, Nebra&a and American Cld-Tcne
Fiddlers' Associations, which has 5,000 in its international
membership. Besides being president of all three associa
tions, she publishes an international newsletter, gives
private fiddle lessons and instructs fiddling at Southeast
Community Collets. -
In her efforts to promote fiddlin Dellyke said she has
written more than 1,000 letters to libraries, governors and
museums to collect any information available about
fiddlers, but said her efforts only left her with a few news-
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Not even the library of Congress had anything on it
besides 'a dip about eiht fiddlers in California," she said.
1Iow can you preserve something without information?
" Finding nothing in the libraries, Dellyke said she has.
been collecting information from fiddlers since 1946. She
has accumulated 33 file drawers full of music and tapes
on fiddling. .
"I've got more information than anyone else on the
subject, she said.
Dellyke is a source of information for many institu
tions. She gets calls regularly from the Smithsonian In
stitute, National Geographic Magazine, the New York
Times and the Detroit Free Press for information on
fiddling contests across the country. The Smithsonian
Institute sends a representative to Lincoln annually to
find out about fiddling developments from DeRyke.
Although her group has formed the largest fiddling
organization; DeRyke 's efforts to promote fiddling
hasn't stopped there, she also has helped other fiddling
associations to form.
,T don't care if they join my group or not, I only,
want to preserve the tradition,"sfae said.
The Nebraska Old-Time Fiddlers Association has 150
members and meets twice a year for "fiddling get-togethers.
Members ages range from four to 102.
The only communication she has with the international
members are occasional visits to the Lincoln office and
through the American Fiddlers News that she publishes
from her home office. The quarterly newsletter contains
record and book reviews.
Fiddling interest has increased, according to DeRyke.
She said she has started more than 100 beginner fiddlers
this year. She also has written her own textbook for
beginning fiddlers-that is the only one ever written except
for a few advanced books.
Although DeRyke only teaches students the traditional
Nebraska old-time fiddling, students may go in any direc
tion from there after learning the basics, she said. Her
students have gone into western, blue grass and tradition
,; al fiddling.
The interest is here," she said, but the problem is
there aren't enough fiddles in the Lincoln area. -
We have people who want to learn and no instru
ments, she said.
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