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@AndrewH I will throw this at you because you do play viola in an orchestra, but anyone else join in.
Keep in mind, I am not really good on my viola, it might be my playing, or my imagination, or odd thinking, take your pick, but it seems to me that the viola does bot handle the fiddle tunes as well as a fiddle, or even a cello. It seems to “drag”, for lack of a better word, to me when I try it.
This is even though, on violin, cello and viola, they are all slow when I play. But, on my viola, it sounds and feels to me like it is dragging.
Is that the nature of the viola, or is it just me? I know, that to me, the viola always sounds soulful, thoughtful, and mysterious in all the solos I have listened to. I absolutely love it. Maybe the nature of the viola, being between cello and violin, it does not get the vast crisp range of emotion you can get with a cello or violin with fiddle music? Does not reach the the extreme joy of found in fiddling? It could be me. I am still trying to get the proper bowing arm.
I am not sure I have explained it well, but that is the best I can do.
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