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Thanks for the feedback, Delma…I’ll pass this along to Patti. Cheers!

Thank you.

Hi, Scovlan.

Patti did record a lesson covering The Red River Jig, but the guitar tracks for that tune haven’t been recorded as of yet. The lesson will be published in the future, once those tracks have been cut.

Hi, Kitegal.

Yes it looks like your message was blocked due to the links. I’ve published it, and you can see it at the bottom of this thread…cheers, and thanks for chiming in!

C

I got a Hardanger fiddle recently which is a 4/4. The 4/5 I am pretty sure relates to the drone strings, you can see that in the tuning link below. Those fiddles are being constantly tuned as the tuning is usually changed from tune to tune. Traditional Hardangers are pretty hard to tune so I got mine outfitted with Wittner pegs, that is really…[Read more]

Usually a hardanger fiddle has four main playing strings and four or five resonating strings. It’s resonating strings have to be tuned perfectly to pitch or they won’t resonate properly. The instrument I itself is of Old Norse origin and (I believe) may have had influences on traditional Irish/Celtic fiddle music.

hmmm, I posted a response but it is does not show here. Perhaps because there were two links in, one to the American Hardanger fiddle association and another one to a page they are having which is showing the diverse most popular tunings which also shows that the 4/5 relates to the drone strings.

Anyways – perhaps Casey can allow those links…[Read more]

Hi, Bruce. Sounds like a good tune for Andre to tackle in his next session…We’ll add it to his list and he may choose to record it. Thanks!

I would like to request a lesson for Hommage a Edmond Parizeau – a great fiddle tune with some tricking bowing.

I just looked at some Hardanger fiddle videos on U tube and some of them explain the difference. I think they are tuned differently, so you can’t just pick up a Harganger and play it like a fiddle.

Thanks, Kitegal. I have an instructor in mind for this tune…now if we could just get past this pandemic business so we could get them to the studios…!!

All the best.

I second that request 🙂

Hi, Bowvally…we’ll put it on their request list. I’d imagine the first one who makes it back to the studio will record the lesson…fingers crossed we can get past this Covid soon!!

C