In case any of you happen to be in the Northwest next weekend! ENE is coming to Seattle! I believe this might be their first US trip as a group. ENE is a...
ENE (Elin and Edward Anderzon, Niklas Willen) is being interviewed and will play some music for the Nordic Roots radio program on KSER-FM in Everett, WA. You...
Greetings all, I have newly come under the spell of the nyckelharpa. I found it totally by accident. I was doing a youtube search on "folk harp." The very...
Jim-- Hi from all of us! Welcome to the world of the nyckelharpa! Wow, most people buy a harpa, and THEN the DVDs! It's a good idea to try and meet one in...
Sheila
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Jun 11, 2008 1:22 pm
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... most ... you ... position, ... the ... usually ... choice. ... Thanks, I will be sure to get in touch, when I am in the market. I saw a couple of the tunes...
... try to ... Not a problem. I was just concerned that I may have gotten a bad link, or sent the information to the wrong place. I understand that people have...
Hi Jim! I'm a newbie too -- maybe you saw my article in the last NyckelNotes. It is an interesting adventure for sure. I am enjoying it immensely, even though...
Hi! I am going to be playing some music at a local Midsummer party. I was wondering if anyone knew of tunes that are traditionally played at Midsummer,...
Here are words and music for two common song-dance tunes played around the Midsommar pole. These are from Bart Brashers who always leads the crowd with them. ...
Hi Trella, We can also bring some paper napkins for Sat. night. We have a ton around. Those and the crackers will be donations from us. SMILE, Virginia...
I am guessing that the ultimate answer will be that it comes down to personal preference, and what you feel comfortable with -- but I was wonder if there are...
Hi, Celeste.. There are traditional Midsommar song dances done all over Sweden, but the tunes played just for general dancing or celebration are usually local....
Jim-- The rule of thumb is to measure your forearm and hand--put your elbow on a table with your arm and hand pointing up and measure from your elbow to the...
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Jun 14, 2008 12:18 am
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It depends on arm length, and is important not to impale your neck! Also, it helps to have a shorter bow when you are new to bow stroking. You can graduate to...
Thank you for this information! Because I have a "shoulder issue" and can't hold the harpa like everyone else in the world does, I am thinking I might just...
The week long camp starts today. see more info here: www.scandiacampmendocino.org Gert Ohlsson will be teaching Nyckelharpa. Midsummer falls during the week of...
... often ... and ... to ... I was just going through the notes for volume one of Peter Hedlund's instructional DvDs. Vagnshusschottis is one of the tunes he...
The nyckelharpa, is a chromatic instrument, so in theory it is playble in any key. Although I can't find the quote right now, I am sure that I read some place,...
Jim, There are three open strings on the nyckelharpa that are part of the F major triad: Low C, C, and A. So tunes played in F get to take advantage of ...
I can think of two reasons the key of A is not so nyckelharpa friendly. In terms of fingering, and also in terms of resonance. So fingering wise, the second...
Thanks to those who responded so quicly. I had thought about the sympathetic strings vibrating, and figured that since all 12 notes where there, the key...
And yet another reason--until 1925, the nyckelharpa was NOT a chromatic instrument. It was diatonic, most often in C, with added keys for Bb and F# on some...
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Jun 23, 2008 2:39 am
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... This is not quite correct: the kontrabasharpa was/is a chromatic instrument, and was the dominant form of the nyckelharpa from the mid-1700s till around ...
And there's this interesting passage, from "Om Nyckelharpospelet på Skansen": A harpa-player can seldom avoid dragging his loose bow-hair across all the...
Sheila
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Jul 8, 2008 8:49 pm
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A question for all of you......in a recent edition of NyckelNotes, someone mentioned having trouble agreeing on a key for Josefins dopvals--they couldn't...
Sheila
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Jul 10, 2008 8:39 pm
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Hi Sheila, I always play it in F for the same reasons you do (plus that's how they played it at camp), but being that I live in Vermont which is thick with...
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Jul 10, 2008 9:08 pm
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It's G vs F for the folks I play with, on both coasts (no doubt for the reasons Sheila itemizes). I've never heard of D or E choices. So, those who use D or...
Here in Seattle, we play it in G or F. I also learned it off the Väsen recording originally, so F was also the first key I played it in. Bart would usually...
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