Nan, one doesn't have to go all the way to Ecuador to study this. A trip
to the Mark O'Conner fiddle camp will show you how this happens, even
here in the USA. He is especially interested in fiddling passed on
through generations. What's fascinating to me is the difference in
pedagogical style between two extremes, for example, Suzuki and various
forms of fiddling. Also, I understand that Decatur, Georgia, is having a
fiddling exhibition as part of the Olympics (we're hosting the Irish.)
Anyway, the O'Conner camp is also international, but I don't remember any
Ecuadorians there from the time I went two years ago. Pam Couture