Mia Marine playing "Hökpers vals" and her own composition "Carica polska" on her five string violin (made by Per Klinga 2015). Visit her online academy: www.fiddleacademy.com
Greetings from Finland! I could write a whole essay about this. Instead, I will sum it up with that it took about 5 seconds of playing before I hit "like".
This is one of my favorit RU-vid Clip 😊. You are fantastic player Mia and it is a complete you to dance while you are playing🤗🤗 hope we can start dancing again soon !!
Is this really a violin with a 5th lower pitched string, or it maybe a tiny viola with a 5th higher pitched string? Also, this is a fantastic and supremely enjoyable interpretation of Hökpers vals. Another also, I like your composition Carica polska!
Thank you so much! This is definitely a violin, but there are also violas with a fifth string on top. For this recording I have tuned it up to (from the bottom) DADAE.
Thank you, Malcolm! I have different tunings depending on the repertoire. The one you wrote is how I usually have it tuned - CGDAE. In this clip though, I've tuned in a way that in Swedish traditional music would be called " A bass" if the violin would have had four strings. Since it has five, I guess I should call it "D bass". The tuning is DADAE from the lowest string. A lot of the music from my home region, Värmland, has been played with a lot of open strings singing along. Some people even had flatter bridges to make it easier to play two strings at the same time. There are other "traditional" tunings as well. "F bass" or "gorrlaus" (FDAE), "troll tuning" (AEAC#) and others. It's fun to try them sometimes, because it makes the instrument sound really different. I have three five strings now... so that I can use different tunings in concerts. :-) It takes too long for the strings to settle, for it to work otherwise.
@@MiaMarine Thank you so much, Its absolutely fascinating and beautiful to listen to. I'm off to try one of these alternate tunings, wish me luck and thank you for your reply.
Lovely playing! One question, if I may ask: Why did you get an exact copy of your old one, if you're playing a different tuning on it (which one are you using, by the way)? Wouldn't it have been better to get a new model especially made for the other tuning?
MrFair Thank you! Yes, of course you may! :-) I'm using the DADAE tuned one for this piece. The other one is tuned in CGDAE. My older five string is really perfect for both tunings, but to change the tuning of two strings in the middle of a concert hasn't been easy, because it takes quite a while for it to settle in the new tuning. Much longer than when I had a four string violin and only had to change tuning of the G string to an A. Since it is such a great instrument (I've never tried one that I've liked better, and I try a lot of violins...), I simply wanted one that was equally good.
musikermia Thank you for your elaborate answer, Mia! CG and DA are not that far apart, so I can see how both tunings can sound good on the same instrument :) And wanting to get an equally good instrument is, of course, more than understandable ;) Not wanting to retune all the time is also something I can relate to... I once experimented a bit with alternative/open guitar tunings and changed the tuning multiple times per session... it certainly is annoying and knowing that your strings could break every minute because of the added wear and tear is also quite uncomfortable. I almost never broke a string before, but I broke countless strings during that time...
