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| Hardanger fiddle New - hardanger for sale (Nov. 2005) |
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Completed in 2003 this violin built to the Sandvik pattern, and decorated
with rosing and inlay from a Gunnar Rostad pattern of 1912. The instrument is strung with a total of 9 strings, 4 'melody' strings and 5 sympathetics. Traditional tuning of the hardanger fiddle requires the bottom G string to be tuned up a tone to A, giving (ascending) A-D-A-E. The sympathetic strings are tuned as B-D-E-F(sharp)-A. |
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| The rosing is from a Gunnar Rostad pattern of 1912, and is hand-drawn using drafting pens, and is applied to the front, back pegbox and the ribs. | |||
| The pegs are finished with traditional bone facing and decoration. The crown is gilded (with gold leaf), and the teeth are more pieces of bone. |
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The 5 sympathetic strings run through a channel made between the neck and the fingerboard. | ||
| The fingerboard and tailpiece are to the same Gunnar Rostad pattern as the rosing, and are made up of between 180 and 300+ separate pieces of bone, mother of pearl and abalone. | |||
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