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Anita Widell
anita.widell@...
Aug 7, 2008 4:27 pm
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Since our members now have access to many on-line specialty retailers, the ANA has decided to discontinue CD sales. We are having a clearance sale -- all items...
Hi Doug, I am an ANA member, who was out of town when you sent out the e-mail about the sale. So I figure most CD's are out, but am including a list below of...
Hello dear friends of the nyckelharpa, The 5th International Days of the Nyckelharpa will be October 2 - 5, 2008. Please make you inscription very soon, if you...
Hello, Ricardo Vieira from Portugal asked me to post this message: He has to sell a nyckelharpa, but there are not so many players in Portugal. It's a...
Folks, Carl Andersen down at William & Mary (Williamsburg, VA) would like to borrow or rent a nyckelharpa for the "semester". If there's anyone who might...
Thank you Matt, for putting the nyckelharpa on NPR this evening! It was on Odd Musical Instruments on All Things Considered 9/28/08, here's the link: ...
???? No NPR segue tune on the version I listened to....nor any nyckelharpa. Just some written comments..... Sheila...
Sheila
spmorris@...
Sep 29, 2008 2:40 am
1234
If you click on the "listen here" instead of the video below it, then go to around 3:25 or so, you'll hear the nyckelharpa segment. ... -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ...
We heard it this evening driving home from the Nordic Roots Festival in Minneapolis, where we heard Väsen on Friday night. What a nice surprise, Matt! Paula...
Hi there, I got this email, don’t know much about it, but I thought some of you might want to know this. Chiara Hi All, There's a real possibility that...
If you're having trouble with these long links simply Google folkmusikens hus and click on the www.folkmusikenshus.se link. The nice thing about doing it...
For fans of weird news, there is a website called fark.com. Today they have discovered the nyckelharpa, and had members have fun with photoshopping a picture...
Thanks for sharing Tim! There are some great ones amongst them! Chiara _____ From: nyckelharpa@yahoogroups.com [mailto:nyckelharpa@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf...
I have a question for you all. Those of you who own Åke Ahlstrand nyckelharpa most likely have hand-woven straps (he wove them himself) that are far more...
Woven by hand on a small "loom", like people in Sweden and Norway did 100 years ago. As opposed to some pre-made strap material cut to length and sold to you....
I bought cross-straps from Leif Alpsjo and also from a guitar website, and replaced the stiff black guitar strap part with 2" wide Swedish embroidered trim,...
Hi Bart, Nothing, I'm afraid. I was using a nice woven strap until I discovered the stretchy black one which was written up in NN some time ago. It's just...
Bart - Could be in the $20-50 range, very wide with some kind of stretch onto it. Peter Blue Resident Manager Pine Lake Campus Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY ...
Peter Blue
bluep@...
Nov 5, 2008 3:10 pm
1250
... probably be made on something like an inkle loom. see: http://schachtspindle.com/products/weaving/inkle_loom.htm I have found that straps that go across my...
when i was practicing last night for an upcoming Santa Lucia fest i was discouraged to find that some of my keys were sticking together. when i push one, the...
Since it is the A string, you can access those keys easily. You can usually remove a couple of small laths that hold the top row of keys in place, giving you...
I prefer not to use sandpaper, since it will make the sides where you're sanding a bit more rounded. Better to keep the sides straight by using a small, very...