impactful and she was so welcoming, and she cared enough to spend time with me. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i am violet hensleycalled the "whittlin' fiddler" because i've made 73 fiddles, made fiddles and played fiddle. i wanted to play the fiddle, i guess, because we didn't have anything else to do. but we didn't have television or radio. and dad played it, and i guess it just struck me as i wanted to play. i can't read, i'm not a musician. i just learned it, it's in my head. if i can't play it in my head, i can't put it on the fiddle. >> i like this lady right here, too. we've been friends all of our life, but we didn't know it until we met about 10 years ago. ♪ >> learning a tune from violet gives me the opportunity to see the whole picture literally. i like to think of fiddle tunes as melody. the notes come in the ears, and then the bowing comes in to the eyes. ♪ and so i can sit there and watch violet and see the circles that she draws, the little handwriting, as she calls it, with her wrists, and i can see how that has an impact on the overall tune. ♪ >> yeah, she's trying to copy my bow work. it just ha