What is the difference between a violin and a fiddle? Tuning?

Question: What is the difference between a violin and a fiddle!? Tuning!?
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The instrument itself is the same; it is the set up that is different!. Most noticeably, the small piece of wood that sits between the strings and the body, called the bridge!. Fiddlers tend to have the bridge "flattened", or at less of an arch than classical violinists do!. This allows for bowing across multiple strings at the same time which is more in the style of fiddling!.
Tuning, strings, are exactly the same!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

It's not OK if beer spills on a violin!.
I heard -that "fiddling" around a note- is the historical reference!. The sound and style of Irish/Scottish fiddling includes what are called warbles, or trills, and add flavor to the melody of the tune!. Many variations of old tunes are passed on as a result of improvising fiddlers!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

The only difference is the type of music you play!. They are the very same instrument - it's just called a violin when you play "classical"-type music, and a fiddle when you play country/folk/bluegrass- type music!. Other than that, they're pretty much tuned the same, have the same strings, etc!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

In most cases the Violin/ Fiddle are tuned the same!.
However there are numerous ways to re tune the instrument for particular pieces, most of which use more than one string at a time!.
Where I have seen the music written for a different tuning it has spelled out the tuning required!.Www@QuestionHome@Com