The tip for tuning the understrings to the Grieg melody line is terrific! That makes it so much easier than trying to figure out the note names. Thank you!!
I am a sucker for pearl inlays too , how you tune" turned on the light " for me , I have a crush on Hardanger fiddle now, only time I ever saw Hardanger was in a violin store ....in a display case..youtube is convenient THANK you for responding
i irish/scottish, appalachian eccentric and via hardanger fiddle tutorials on very convenient You Tube ...am developing love for this Norwegian treasure. restringing looks tedious, tuning it also...a labor of love??
I have never restrung my sympathetic strings before! But the regular strings aren't bad to re-string. If you like Scottish music, I just released a Scottish/Norwegian fusion album called Crossing the North Sea. You can find it on bandcamp here: crossingthenorthsea.bandcamp.com
I love these so much that I feature a Hardanger fiddle player in one of my novels. He's a traveling tent musician who kept a diary in the late 1800s to early 1900s. (Wish I could have found a great HF photo to use for the cover!)
Are you from norway because Nesvig sounds pretty like a person from norway. now anyway in 2023 summer. i'm going to knut buen (the best guy at playing the hardanger fiddle) in telemark... and btw are you alive because it's been a year since you have made a video?
Hi! My dad's family is from Nesvik, Norway, but I am American. I have Norwegian and Danish ancestors though. I had a baby last year, so life has been very busy!
Bit confused: the upper and lower strings are tuned to the same notes so the lower ones will resonate - sound - when the upper are played open. But not when they are stopped to a different note? Although I guess there will usually be a lower string which is near enough a harmonic of any note played on an upper string to resonate some Seems awfully complicated for such a small difference.
The understrings are tuned B, G#, F#, E (top to bottom), so anytime any of those notes are played (whether open string or fingered string), the sympathetic understrings will respond and resonate accordingly. Does that make sense?
@@adrianwright8685 Because the open strings are F#, B, E and the G# is played so often that those strings resonate the most often. Since the Hardanger Fiddle is almost exclusively played with double stops and open strings, those notes specifically will resonate more. Does that make sense?
