Laurie Lewis is a Grammy award-winning bluegrass fiddler and songwriter. For many years she owned a violin shop in Berkeley, California. Here, in the third hour-long program in the Rosin the Bow radio series broadcast on KVMR-FM in Nevada City, California, Laurie tells how she wrote two songs about the violin: The Maple's Lament and The Bear Song. This is followed by the story of the origin of the Mongolian horse-head fiddle.