Up Helly Aa!
Just remembered it’s Up Helly Aa today – have got the webcast going, it’s live from 1700-2100GMT, including the burning […]
Life
January 2017
Celtic Connections 2017 – 3
Fantastic concert at Celtic Connections this evening. It’s not often you get to see an octave nyckelharpa, or a carnyx,
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Celtic Connections 2017 – 2
A great concert from Bagad Kemper this afternoon at Celtic Connections – they are as good as ever! Followed by
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The kontrabas is finished!
After about a year it’s finally playable. I’ve added a link to a video so that you can hear it;
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Adding the strings
After making all the keys it’s time to put on the strings and try it out! First the playing strings,
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Chromatic nyckelharpa
Burns Night 2017
Burns Night coming up – here’s a little tune for it. One of my favourite tunes for “Auld Lang Syne”.
Celtic Connections 2017 – 1
First Celtic Connections visit this year – a great concert with Ahlberg, Ek and Roswall – and oh yes, Christ
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Keys – step 2 – final shaping and fitting
The final step with the keys is to shape them nicely, adding some traditional decoration at the ends, and to
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Fiddle
Busking again
First ceilidh of the year this evening with the Buskers – no photos, too busy playing 🙂 A good turn-out
Keys – step 1 – cutting and fitting to the keybox
Making the keys is the last complicated job for the kontrabas, simply because they are all slightly different, and some
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The nut
The nut on a stringed instrument like the nyckelharpa is the piece of wood (or sometimes plastic) over which the
Machine heads
When I first started the drawings I had decided how I wanted to tune the sympathetic strings. I wanted a
