Fiddler.

Drunk as a fiddler. Fiddlers at wakes and fairs were allowed meat and drink to their heart’s content, and seldom left a merry-making sober.

Oliver’s Fiddler. Sir Roger LʹEstrange (1616–1704). So called because he, at one time, was playing a fiddle or viole with others in the house of John Hingston when Cromwell was one of the guests.

⁂ Fiddler is a slang word for sixpence.