> Hei! > > > And do you know anything about the distinctive Norwegian variant? I have > > a photocopy of a chapter from a book on these instruments - written, of > > course, in Norwegian. I can't read Norwegian. > > But I can! I have not read this, but I am very interested! So please > Frank, tell us more!
This is not Frank, it's Stuart. The book is: 'Med Piber og Basuner, Skelmeye og Fiol' by Bjorn Aksdal 1982. The section on sisters is only short so I've put the few pages from the book on my webspace: homepage.ntlworld.com/s.walsh (didn't seem to work in Opera?) I'd love to know a quick summary of what it says. > I can add that there are some music in manuscript for the norwegian > sister. When Bellmann fled from his creditors in Stockholm, he lived for > a while in the little town Fredrikshald (now Halden) in the southeast > corner of Norway - my hometown. Maybe he bought a sister from Amund > Hansen, who lived in Fredrikshald and was considered to be the greatest > norwegian sister maker. > Do you know anything more about the music in manuscript for the sister? The pictures in Aksdal's book and one in Baines, suggest a very definite style of making. Do they all look like this? The other sisters mentioned, apart from one are all English, suggesting, perhaps a C tuning and guittar-like music rather than French cistre-like music. I wonder if anyone has revived the instrument in Norway. The Swedish lute seems to be going strong? ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
