Piggelunkschottisen

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This tune is from our album Paper of Pins. A really groovy schottis. Piggelunk is a dialect word from Jönköping meaning hedgehog, or so I've read on the internet. I suspect however that Pigge Lunk was a cartoon character created by Gösta Knutsson in the 1950s. I'm still trying to find out! But it's a jolly little tune anyway! Enjoy!
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Vicki (& Jonny)


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Gruvan

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This is the second tune in the set, last time we had Skomakaren and now we have Gruvan, which means The Mine. The mine in question is in Taberg - Click Here
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Vicki (& Jonny)

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Skomakaren

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I've run a couple of säckpipa (Swedish bagpipes) courses at the wonderful Halsway Manor in Somerset, so I thought I would post up the four säckpipa tunes that we've put on two of our albums. So this entry is all about Skomakaren - The Shoemaker.
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Vicki (& Jonny)

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One for His Nob

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Having finished all the tunes from Twelve Months & A Day we've been wondering how best to do the rest of the tunes! We may well do the rest by album but at the Upton Folk Festival today I did a workshop on dance tunes and I taught a tune called One for His Nob - it's a cribbage reference and it is on one of our albums, so I'm putting this tune up so that anyone who came to the workshop can see the music and the dots. It's a contra tune, so play it with lots of back beat. It was originally written as a flute tune and is on the album SlipTease - which isn't for sale any more. The video on this page has been taken from my Nyckelharpa #tunefriday blog.
Enjoy!
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Vicki (& Jonny)

Elegy

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There is one track on the album that we've not done a video for and this is Elegy. It's not really the kind of tune to teach slowly in a video. It's a piece of music that would be just as at home in a classical recital. It's been performed a few times, but we only filmed the very performance at Halsway Manor a few years ago, so that posted below - it's not a perfect performance though!
The music is quite long, so right click and save to disk for the music!

Elegy treble clef nyckelharpa part.pdf
Elegy bass clef oktavharpa part.pdf
Elegy bass clef piano.pdf

Play it, enjoy it, film it and show it to us - we'd love to see it!
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Vicki (& Jonny)

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Pinky and the Cradle

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The last tune on the final track is a slip jig called Pinkie and the Cradle. Everything I wrote yesterday is equally valid for today's entry.... It's all about Jonny breaking his little finger. Watch the video sleeve note below to find out more about that. Originally it was written for a contra dance. You can see it in the context of the dance below. It's also been taught as a nyckelharpa #tunefriday, so that video is below too. It's a great little tune that has also appeared via Skype link in Vicki's nyckelharpa show!
Enjoy!

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Vicki (& Jonny)

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That Mallet Moment

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The second tune on the last track is a slip jig called That Mallet Moment, all about Jonny breaking his little finger. Watch the video sleeve note below to find out more about that. Originally it was written for a contra dance. You can see it in the context of the dance below. It's also been taught as a nyckelharpa #tunefriday, so that video is below too. It's a great little tune that has also appeared via Skype link in Vicki's nyckelharpa show!
Enjoy!

:))

Vicki (& Jonny)

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Fiddling About

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We're back to contra dance music today and this is the tune that is in the middle of the song Grandpa Joe. We love playing this for dancing, it's so jolly! It gets played on the fiddleharpa - but is quite playable on the normal nyckelharpa. :)
Enjoy!

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Vicki (& Jonny)

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Midsommarn

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Today we have the third tune in the set that on the album is called Midsommarn and this is Midsommarn itself.  Again this is a silverbasharpa tune that can be played against a CD drone on a standard modern nyckelharpa. The run in bars three and four of the B part are the tricky part on the nyckelharpa.

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Vicki (& Jonny)

 

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Marsch efter Calle Svankvist

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Today we have the second tune in the set that on the album is called Midsommarn (that tune is tomorrow!) Again this is a silverbasharpa tune that can be played against a CD drone on a standard modern nyckelharpa. But it works just as well on a kontrabasharpa with a G drone, see the trio video below.  So who was this Calle Svankvist, the fact that this tune works on either kontrabasharpa and silverbasharpa could help us to date him.... Watch this space to find out!

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Vicki (& Jonny)

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