Take up a fiddle and celebrate Missouri When people ask me if I play a musical instrument, I tell them no – I can't play a radio. I am, however, a music fan, and an admirer of all who have the ability to create it. I'm also a proud native Missourian, which means our state musical instrument – the fiddle – is, to me, worth knowing something about. The fiddle became the official musical instrument of Missouri on July 17, 1987. Here's what the State of Missouri has to say about it: "Brought to Missouri in the late 1700s by fur traders and settlers, the fiddle quickly became popular...
