The string in his mouth appears to be attached to the main bamboo pole just below the bow. It is not clear how he holds the string in his mouth. Hooked on a tooth, apparently - see around 5.40. He takes it out at the end (7.13). The instant that he puts it in his mouth is not shown. It is at 1.06. Earlier the string is held in the hand holding the bow, but at 1.07 he begins playing, and the string is already in his mouth.

I am puzzled by the fiddler. What has he got in his mouth and what does it do?

I don't know which instruments are being played here, but while you can play the same notes on say a clarinet, and a bassoon, the bassoon plays them in a lower register.

Not Classical, but definitely "classic". One of the very best Dixieland style jazzbands I've come across. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un7TdFdPJdM

By the way, the piece halfway through that is not given a title in English, is called "Moon sand", or so a combination of Abbyy FineReader and Google Translate suggests. "Moon dust" might be more accurate.

how about a colly bird?

If you are ever in London, a visit to the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich is well worthwhile.

Most sources claim Halley rhymes with alley. I have heard it pronounced as rhyming with daily, but the double "l" suggests the former is correct, and conforms to normal English pronunciation rules. Now were he Welsh…

More relating loosely with my original post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUrDUxh5xS0

Only two go into the run-off. If anyone gets 50.01% of the votes in round 1, there is no run-off. If two candidates each get 49.99% of the first round votes, and the others share .02% then the two 49.99ers have a run-off.

If all six candidates share the first round virtually equally, then one sixth plus one votes will get them into the run-off. So that is the theoretical minimum. If three each get one sixth plus one votes, and the other three get one sixth minus one votes, then there will be a run-off between three, and presumably the whole thing starts over, in that if none of the three gets at least 50% in the run-off, there will be a further run-off.

Don't worry, that won't happen!

But unfortunately they are. Just concentrate on writing a good, readable novel. If anyone wants to make a film from it, you (or the film maker) can write a film script based on the novel. A film script can never read like a novel.

Do you know of any novel written as a ready-made film script?

I haven't, sorry. As explained earlier, I find your style too cumbersome to be read enjoyably.

Geoff