Norway · Instrument making; Wood craft; Norwegian heritage
Hardingfelemakar — Hardingfele Tradisjon
The Hardingfele (Hardanger fiddle) making tradition — the construction of Norway's national instrument, an eight-string fiddle (four playing strings plus four resonating understrings) that produces the characteristic Norwegian drone-and-melody texture. The felemakar reads the correct spruce top plate tap-tone through an acoustic tap assessment — tapping the spruce plate at the bass bar position and reading the specific tap-tone frequency that indicates the correct plate stiffness and thickness for the Hardingfele resonating system.
Risk level: Stable · Norwegian traditional music and dance (slåttar) UNESCO ICH 2014; the Hardingfele as the primary instrument of this tradition
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