Hello everybody, I'd like to introduce myself to this list. My name is Chiara, I am Dutch but right now I live with my family in the United States. About 9...
Welcome aboard Chiara from another swede living in Michigan...The harpas are awesome... ingemar johansson honor. mi ... "Are you still wasting your time with...
ingemar johansson
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Jul 14, 2004 3:37 am
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Hallo, I'm Koen. I'm on this list for a while... Mostly quite silent... I live in Belgium and play nyckelharpa since a few years. In Belgium there are some 10...
Koen, The Puma DVDs start with the very basics, like how to hold the harpa and the bow, and then begin with simple tunes. The second disc begins to get into...
Sheila P. Morris
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Jul 14, 2004 5:29 pm
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Hi all, I've been approached by a museum in Australia that wants to buy a nyckelharpa for their exhibits. Since it won't be played, it doesn't have to be a...
Hej! I will be joining the ranks of nyckelharpa owners soon (I have a Harry Hedbom nyckelharpa on order from Leif Alpsjö) and hopefully nyckelharpa players as...
Hi All, Is anyone on the list able to tell me a bit more about my nyckelharpa or its builder? I have had it a year now, and I bought it second-hand from a shop...
thank you for the responses, what a wonderful resource you all are! I was specifically looking for the written music ("dots and lines") and now have it. I had...
I'm forwarding this, just in case anyone is interested in a "fixer-upper"...... Sheila...
Sheila P. Morris
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Jul 30, 2004 10:18 pm
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I am looking to build a Moraharpa and I wondered in f anyone had a spare set of plans they could sell me, I coulp pay by Paypal. (I have tried to email Bjorn...
Hello to All Members of the Nyckelharpa Group! I am Mike Hulme and I have been playing the harpa for just under one month. I first encountered it at the St...
Mike-- Yeah, the nyckelharpa bug bites hard......good luck with your building project, and with learning to play the harpa! There are several harpa players in...
Sheila P. Morris
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Aug 15, 2004 11:13 pm
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The instrument is mechanically complex, hence the cost. I suggest that you look for a used instrument which is playable, but which has been well used;...
Kent Nilsson
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Aug 23, 2004 3:58 am
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Kent-- You could try Leif Alpsjö at www.nyckelharpa.com , he sometimes has used ones. He lives near Uppsala. Or maybe my friend Lennart Carlsson could...
Sheila P. Morris
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Aug 23, 2004 4:30 pm
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I give up! I know when it's hopeless! I have been playing nyckelharpa for 30 years now, although I have not been able to travel to Sweden for summer...
Hi Jim, No comments from this side...as I am just a beginner:-). But I do have one question; which tunes do you consider should be on everyone's list? I of...
The good old regional tunes are a matter of personal taste and preference, one which I share with you, Tim. In fact, I'll go further and express a preference...
Karen Myers
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Aug 24, 2004 9:47 pm
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Hi, I would also like to know what I should be expected to learn/know if I attended a stamma. Cheers, Mike [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Hello Sheila, Thanks for your nice email. Yes, the bug bit hard, and I was so desperate to get hold of this 'harpa before anyone else that I had to make 9...
Mike-- Sounds like you're well on your way! And you're not the only person to have had to make multiple ATM visits to get a harpa! I just took my VISA card...
Sheila P. Morris
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Aug 24, 2004 11:25 pm
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Tim-- AHA! He has seen the light! The phenomenon you describe is part of the reason we included some modern tunes in the ANA allspel list. While the list was...
Sheila P. Morris
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Aug 24, 2004 11:25 pm
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OK, here's the ANA allspel list, edited to reflect things I have actually encountered in Uppland at the stämmor..... Boda Mattes polska Björklingelåten...
Sheila P. Morris
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Aug 24, 2004 11:47 pm
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Hello, I am looking for books on Swedish (or Scandinavian) folk music. They should be about things like: - harmonics, counterpoint and forms of Swed./Scand. ...
Klaus-- Unfortunately, given the obscurity of Swedish folk-music outside of Sweden, I don't think there are very many books in other languages. Two I know of...
Sheila P. Morris
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Aug 26, 2004 3:45 pm
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Hallo, I'm interested too in books (or websites?) about the topics KLaus indicated... Since I'm planning to learn some Swedish, I'm interested to know of any...
... would want just exactly THAT tune! The problem is, that there are several mutually exclusive versions of it, and I've never seen it written down the way...
