Rare Treat:: Nyckelharpa

Subject: RE: Rare Treat:: Nyckelharpa
From: Alice
Date: 29 Dec 09 - 11:28 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: Rare Treat:: Nyckelharpa
From: open mike
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 12:20 AM

o.k., but only one at a time!

Subject: RE: Rare Treat:: Nyckelharpa
From: GUEST,Ian cookieless
Date: 16 Dec 08 - 10:32 PM

Last Friday I saw Jogleresa (who play early and trad. music from Europe and the Middle East), with member Claire Salaman, a nyckelharpa player. Beautiful. I had never knowingly heard one before. The gig was unamplified in a fairly large tiered venue, but still we could hear the echoey resonance within the body of the nyckelharpa. What a treat indeed.

Subject: RE: Rare Treat:: Nyckelharpa
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 16 Dec 08 - 08:53 AM

There were at least a dozen of them gathered together upstairs at the King & Queen last month for Johan Hedin's workshop.
Very, very weird till he explained that he always warns an audience with "and now I'm going to play an instrument from another planet".

Subject: RE: Rare Treat:: Nyckelharpa
From: GUEST,giles earle
Date: 16 Dec 08 - 07:59 AM

There was a great concert in York last week, with Clare Salaman on nyckelharpa and Vivien Ellis singing, as part of the Christmas Early Music Festival. A wonderful noise (from both of them!!)

Subject: RE: Rare Treat:: Nyckelharpa
From: Banjiman
Date: 16 Dec 08 - 05:10 AM

We had Vicki Swan & Johnny Dyer at KFFC on Saturday night. Vicki play the Nyckelharpa..... and what a great sound it is.

Cery good they were too!

Paul

Subject: RE: Rare Treat:: Nyckelharpa
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 16 Dec 08 - 05:03 AM

More on Nyckelharpa and Träskofiol here: http://goto.glocalnet.net/instrumentverkstaden/

Subject: RE: Rare Treat:: Nyckelharpa
From: mouldy
Date: 16 Dec 08 - 04:39 AM

Sam Pirt's got one, but I don't know how much he plays it.

Andrea

Subject: RE: Rare Treat:: Nyckelharpa
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Dec 08 - 12:09 AM

open mike, I would love to hear your playing on both of those!

Subject: RE: Rare Treat:: Nyckelharpa
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 15 Dec 08 - 11:40 PM

Well, pavane, it sounds like Trier was a great place for a music lover to be. And such interesting kinds of music too.

open mike, I went to see the picture. That's certainly an unusual instrument.

Subject: RE: Rare Treat:: Nyckelharpa
From: open mike
Date: 15 Dec 08 - 05:34 PM

i played my nyckelharpa and my newest wierd swedish fiddle...
Träskofiol (CLOG FIDDLE OR WOODEN SHOE FIDDLE) on Friday at our
Santa Lucia Festival of Lights.

see picture here
http://www.osterlenagar.se/osterlenagar/konst/akvarell/traskofiol.htm
this is an even rarer treat as there are not many of these fiddles in existance. they are from Skane, southern Sweden.

Subject: RE: Rare Treat:: Nyckelharpa
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 15 Dec 08 - 04:58 AM

Alternatively:

I don't know what it is . . .

Subject: RE: Rare Treat:: Nyckelharpa
From: pavane
Date: 15 Dec 08 - 04:44 AM

You can see a picture of Mariusz and his instrument near the bottom of this page:

here

Subject: RE: Rare Treat:: Nyckelharpa
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 15 Dec 08 - 04:38 AM

I was in Trier one Christmas Day (in Germany the trains run every day). There was a session in a riverside pub with snow falling outside.
(Irish, of course, for reasons amply illustrated in threads passim on fascists hijacking music).
Last weekend this nyckelharpa, Henrik, dropped by to visit his friend Henry the Hoover and go to the nyckelharpa doctor who lives nearby.
Oooh, there's always something happening in North London in case you can't get to Trier . . .

Subject: RE: Rare Treat:: Nyckelharpa
From: pavane
Date: 15 Dec 08 - 04:26 AM

And I how could I forget the German Barrel-organ group. How do you synchronise three or more of these things? Must be an art.

Subject: RE: Rare Treat:: Nyckelharpa
From: pavane
Date: 15 Dec 08 - 04:25 AM

Peruvian! Where is that EDIT facility!

Subject: Rare Treat:: Nyckelharpa
From: pavane
Date: 15 Dec 08 - 04:24 AM

Wandering through Trier Christmas Market yesterday (14th) I had the rare treat of seeing Mariusz Radwanski playing his Nyckelharpa.

Also in the market were a brass band from St. Petersburg, an accordeon duo from Minsk, and a didgeridoo (plus the obligatory Perivian pan-pipes).