Actually - I should have asked for fiddlers too - after all, Doc Watson always talks about how he learned to play guitar the way he did by trying to play fiddle tunes on the guitar.

Quite frankly - I often love the sound of the fiddle, but don't know any fiddle players, but I do know other guitar players. One of the reasons I bought a Roland GI-20 was so that when jamming bluegrass with another guitar player, I could occasionally belt out a fiddle solo. But after hearing and playing around with the synth sounds, I can't imagine finding a sound that is any substitute at all to my own ears (mostly because of the expression the bow creates in the attack, and the variations and expressoin a human imparts to the fiddle during a melody or solo).

I know Mac suggested a great youtube video with a synth play doing a good job with a fiddle sound (or was that a violin sound) - and Mac suggested the very smart idea of knowing what NOT to play if the synth sound is cheesy with certain types of sounds, and that the idea might be to give the audience the effect of a real fiddle player - still for me, all I love about the fiddle is largely lost when played through the guitar synth.