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The '''Jap fiddle''' or '''Japanese fiddle''' was a one-stringed bowed instrument used by street performers, [[music hall]] performers, and [[vaudevillians]]<ref name="Experimental musical instruments">{{cite book|title=Experimental musical instruments|url=http://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 name="CowgillRushton2006">{{cite book|author1=Rachel Cowgill|author2=Julian Rushton|title=Europe, empire, and spectacle in nineteenth-century British music|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=gFWVWesJcTIC&pg=PA273|accessdate=1 April 2012|date=December 2006|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-0-7546-5208-3|pages=273–}}</ref> A variant was later produced with a vibrating membrane or horn for amplification,<ref name="Hunt1985">{{cite book|author=Christine Hunt|title=I'm ninety-five-- any objection?|url=http://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 name="Society1983">{{cite book|author=English Folk Dance and Song Society|title=English dance and song|url=http://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 [[
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