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Hardanger fiddle
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Hardanger fiddle

Norwegian musical instrument similar to the violin. It has four strings and four or five sympathetic strings, and is used for playing folk music.

Many of Edvard Grieg's piano pieces were inspired by the music of the Hardanger fiddle.



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Similar to Grieg in origin and reception was the nineteenth-century Norwegian violinist Ole Bull who rose quickly to iconic status playing traditional Norwegian folk tunes on a hardingfele, or Hardanger fiddle.
Daniel M. Grimley. Grieg: Music, Landscape and Norwegian Identity by Bradford, Melissa Dalton / Scandinavian Studies
When I saw that hardingfele in the window, I knew what she was talking about.
Norwegian fiddle plays on, thanks to craftsman's skills and devotion by Strini, Tom / The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA)
The drone strings help give it a rich and resonant tone, and for the on-site recording sessions in Norway, Tibbetts used one microphone close to the instruments and another about 20 feet away in the Utne church where he recorded Knut Hamre and fellow Hardingfele player Turid Spildo.
Knut Hamre and Steve Tibbetts: [Angstrom] (Hannibal HNCD 1438) by Sensible Sound
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