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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.
Larsen's father played violin and Hardanger fiddle. He had emigrated from Førde , Sunnfjord , Norway and lived for many years in Fargo, North Dakota . Robert Larsen, at the age of 14, apprenticed to the Norwegian-American violin maker Gunnar Gunnarsson Helland as a repairman and a fiddle maker in Fargo from 1957 to 1965.
On a cello, the strings are attached to the tailpiece and are held above the soundboard by the bridge.. A bridge is a device that supports the strings on a stringed musical instrument and transmits the vibration of those strings to another structural component of the instrument—typically a soundboard, such as the top of a guitar or violin—which transfers the sound to the surrounding air.
The Hardanger violin is expected to fetch between £3,000 and £6,000 when it is sold in December (Gardiner Houlgate/PA) The Lord of the Rings soundtrack was recorded at EMI’s Abbey Road studio ...
Frontpage from brochure and price list. The Helland family from Bø in Telemark is a Norwegian dynasty of Hardanger fiddle-makers who made the most significant and important contribution to the development of the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle tradition.
A violin consists of a body or corpus, a neck, a finger board, a bridge, a soundpost, four strings, and various fittings.The fittings are the tuning pegs, tailpiece and tailgut, endpin, possibly one or more fine tuners on the tailpiece, and in the modern style of playing, usually a chinrest, either attached with the cup directly over the tailpiece or to the left of it.
The sound holes of cellos and other instruments of the violin family are known as F-holes and are located on opposing sides of the bridge. A sound hole is an opening in the body of a stringed musical instrument, usually the upper sound board. Sound holes have different shapes: Round in flat-top guitars and traditional bowl-back mandolins;
Gunnar Gunnarsson Helland was a member of the Helland fiddle maker family of Bø, Norway.Helland worked in the traditional region of Telemark in the workshop of his father, Gunnar Olavsson Helland, until he emigrated to United States in 1901 and settled in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.