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Thread #66616   Message #1108832
Posted By: open mike
04-Feb-04 - 02:39 AM
Thread Name: Nyckelharpa workshops in the UK
Subject: RE: Nyckelharpa workshops in the UK
Excellant! Cajsa taught some workshops in the U.S. last spring, which I attended, and my nyckelharpa playing is better due to those sessions. Bo Larrson was there, too, near Seattle, Washington. see also
www.nyckelharpa.org, also known as a Key Fiddle, yes similar to bowed hurdy gurdy except that a hurdy gurdy has a cover over the strings and you reach yor hand over the "finger-board" to play it, and a nyckelharpa is played with your left hand going under the neck of it. Also a hurdy gurdy straps to your body with a waist belt or band, and a nyckelharpa is suspended from a strap much like a guitar strap, which goes in fornt of both shoulders.see also this thread