I`ve been wanting to know forever,and I`ve asked other peaple,but no one I`ve asked knew.

There is no difference, it`s just the style of music you play with it that differentiates them.

1. Style
2. Attitude
3. Style
4. Attitude
5. action height
6. "fiddle" is also used as a more generic term that can apply to other "bowed" instruments, eg swedish key fiddle, hardanger fiddle, etc

Fiddle and violin are the same instrument
fiddle music is waaaaaaaaaay better though

~*Devil went down to georgia*~

often times, traditional fiddlers would file down their bridge so that they could play multiple strings (at the same time) easier.i suppose it really depends on what you mean by fiddle: do you mean fiddle as in the instrument or as in the music?