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  2. Hardanger fiddle - Wikipedia

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    A Hardanger fiddle (Norwegian: hardingfele) is a traditional stringed instrument considered to be the national instrument of Norway. In modern designs, this type of fiddle is very similar to the violin , though with eight or nine strings (rather than four as on a standard violin) and thinner wood .

  3. Come Home (Annbjørg Lien and Bjørn Ole Rasch album)

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    On this album the Norwegian traditional musician and Hardanger fiddle virtuoso Annbjørg Lien teams up with her husband, foot bellows organist Bjørn Ole Rasch, for a wonderful and eclectic album featuring Hardanger fiddle, harmonium and contemporary and fresh versions of traditional music.

  4. Gjermund Larsen - Wikipedia

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    Larsen is a trained musician from the Ole Bull Academy at Vossavangen, and the traditional folk music program at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. [1] During his studies he joined the band Majorstuen, and contributed on several album releases, including Majorstuen awarded Spellemannprisen 2003.

  5. Anne Hytta - Wikipedia

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    Hytta has been training hardingfele with Einar Løndal (1914–2005) and Knut Buen (b. 1948) among others. She writes and arranges new music at the intersection of Traditional folk music, Contemporary classical music and other modal traditional folk music traditions. Her main project next to playing solo fiddle is in the trio Slagr, initiated ...

  6. Draumkvedet - Wikipedia

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    He scored it for solo singing voices, speakers, Hardanger fiddle, electronics, chorus and orchestra. The work was composed in honor of the millennium of the city of Trondheim in 1997. It was recorded in 2001 and released on a two-CD set in 2006. Ola Gjeilo wrote a version for choir, piano, and string orchestra, which premiered in May 2014. [4]

  7. List of national instruments (music) - Wikipedia

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    fiddle [104] Four-stringed instrument, bowed 321.322: Nicaragua: marimba [105] Xylophone-like instrument with gourd resonators: 111.222-4 Norway: Hardingfele [50] [106] [107] Hardanger fiddle Ornately decorated fiddle with four main strings and four resonating strings beneath them, which are not touched by the bow 321.322-71: Norway: langeleik [50]

  8. The Norwegian folk music series - Wikipedia

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    The Hardanger fiddle books were published between 1958 and 1981. The editors were all traditional fiddlers who were well acquainted with the music in question. The three of them, Arne Bjørndal , Truls Ørpen and Eivind Groven , had all collected fiddle tunes in their areas, and were now asked to put their collections into print.

  9. Knut Knutsson Steintjønndalen - Wikipedia

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    Knut Knutsson Steintjønndalen (22 November 1887 – 11 June 1969) was a Norwegian Hardanger fiddle maker from Bø in Telemark, Norway. [1] Before he died, Knut Eilevsson Steintjønndalen told his 15-year-old son Knut Knutsson to keep the tradition alive. Knut made his first Hardanger fiddle at age 15 and was paid approximately $1.50. 61 years ...

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