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{{Short description|One-stringed musical instrument}}
{{for|the traditional Japanese bowed instrument|Kokyū}}
[[File:Japfiddle.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.3|Commonwealth troops with a Jap fiddle during World War I]]
The '''Jap fiddle''' or '''Japanese fiddle''' was a [[monochord|one-stringed]] [[bowed instrument]] used by [[street performers]], [[music hall]] performers, and [[vaudevillians]]<ref>{{cite book|title=Experimental Musical Instruments|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xAkwAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=1 April 2012|year=1994|publisher=Experimental Musical Instruments|page=13}}</ref> around the start of the 20th century, particularly in the United Kingdom and United States. The instrument was particularly associated with [[Cockney]] [[blackface]] performer [[G. H. Chirgwin]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Rachel Cowgill|author2=Julian Rushton|author2-link=Julian Rushton|title=Europe, Empire, and Spectacle in Nineteenth-century British Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gFWVWesJcTIC&pg=PA273|accessdate=1 April 2012|date=December 2006|publisher=Ashgate Publishing|isbn=978-0-7546-5208-3|pages=273–}}</ref> A variant was later produced with a vibrating membrane and horn for amplification,<ref>{{cite book|author=Christine Hunt|title=I'm ninety-five – any objection?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y8IhAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=1 April 2012|year=1985|publisher=Reed Methuen|isbn=978-0-474-00040-9|page=36}}</ref> as a one-stringed [[phonofiddle]].<ref>{{cite book|title=English Dance and Song|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ilVLAAAAYAAJ|accessdate=1 April 2012|year=1983|publisher=The English Folk Dance and Song Society|page=10}}</ref>
The instrument was likely named for its vague similarity to the Japanese [[kokyū]], as in the late 1800s interest in East Asia had been piqued (''see [[Chinoiserie]]'') by the opening of Japan to foreign trade (see ''[[Foreign relations of Meiji Japan]]'').<ref>{{cite book|title=Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i1UJAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=1 April 2012|year=2000|publisher=American Musical Instrument Society|page=201}}</ref>
==References==
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