"So many people get into problems and give up when they try to teach themselves to play the fiddle - so, I wondered, would a few words of advice help some to enjoy playing the fiddle and fewer would give up in disgust?"

A nice selection of tutorials (mostly text/image based) answering a lot of basic questions.

Huge collections of digitized old-time and early Bluegrass 78 RPM records available for purchase on CD-ROM and DVD-ROM. Dig around and you'll find some generous free samples.

Some nice recordings of old-time tunes on clawhammer banjo and various other instruments.