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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.
Bowed keyed fiddle: suroz [12] Balochs: 321.322 Bowed string instrument with a long neck, similar to a fiddle or sarangi and played vertically tiple [13] Tiple Colombiano Colombia: 321.322 Guitar-like instrument with a neck and four courses of three strings each tres [14] Cuba: 321.322 Guitar-like instrument with a neck and three courses of two ...
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.
Lord of the Rings composer Howard Shore asked Mr Crehan to play a Norwegian Hardanger violin, now nicknamed the Rohan Fiddle, for the score because of its plaintive and haunting sound.
The Norwegian folk music series is a scientific collection of traditional Norwegian dance music, divided into two separate series, a hardanger fiddle series, and a regular fiddle series. The Hardanger fiddle series is already published (Hardingfeleverket), and the fiddle series is in production. Together, the two series are meant to represent ...
Norwegian fiddling (including Hardanger fiddling; see also Bygdedans and Gammaldans), including traditions from: Røros and Nord-Noreg styles, both using the standard fiddle. Finnskogen, using the standard fiddle, but featuring some flatted notes influenced by Finnish folk music. Voss and Telemark styles, both using the Hardanger fiddle.
Helland Brothers was a fiddle makers' shop in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, United States, 1905–1927. The workshop was founded in 1905 by the brothers Knut Gunnarsson Helland and Gunnar Gunnarsson Helland from Bø in Telemark. They emigrated to America in 1901 and made both Hardanger fiddles and violins.