Why the nyckelharpa?
I first heard the nyckelharpa a long time ago (maybe 30 years?) in the Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh. Two Swedish nyckelharpa […]
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Chromatic nyckelharpa
Steaming the top
After a lot of work planing the piece selected for the top to thickness (about 3.5 to 4mm), it was
Preparations for steaming
Originally I thought I would make the top from glued pieces, and cut it out to shape with chisels and
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New nyckelharpa key tangent
Of course, when a nyckelharpa key was beginning to stick on Sunday morning at Halsway I should have got Olle
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Halsway 2016
Fantastic weekend at Halsway! I think this was at the Friday pre dinner session. Thanks Linda 🙂 What a wonderful weekend!
Clock repairs
Home via Wigan to do some clock repairs – not quite working yet – hopefully to be finished on the
Astronomy, Life, Physics
Lunar electricity
Excellent! Use the Moon to make electricity! Much better than wind turbines.
Sunset from Greenbank
Pretty sunset this evening 🙂 The nights are fairly drawing in …
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Germany 2016
Got back this afternoon from our trip to the island of Rügen in the Baltic, off the north coast of
Fiddle
Fiddle at ESF Diggers session
At the Diggers for the Edinburgh Shetland Fiddlers session again this evening – with the fiddle 🙂 – and we
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Stewartry Sportive 2016
It was very dull for the first couple of hours, then the rain started – but I got round in
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Chromatic nyckelharpa
Nyckelharpa visits Diggers again
Well it was the nyckelharpa’s turn to get out this evening – another fun monthly Tuesday session in the Diggers.
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Fiddle
Fiddle with esf at the Diggers
Great session at the Diggers this evening with the Edinburgh Shetland Fiddlers. The fiddle got a bit of exercise for
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Adding the back
The back of the instrument is made from tonewood – a part of the old piano soundboard, cut to size
Physics
More gravitational waves
Second lot of gravitational waves seen …
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Body shaping completed
Time to finish the rough shaping, and round off all the sharp corners! First a bit more wood can be
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Initial shaping
Now I have a lump of wood that’s roughly nyckelharpa shaped, it’s time to start cutting bits off to get