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Written in fRoots issue 358, April 2013


LISE LUNDE BRENNHAGEN
Kjeringe I Snødrevet - Traditional langeleik playing from Valdres
Etnisk Musikklubb EM61 (2012)

One of a very few CDs devoted to Norway’s long swelling-rectangle variant of the European fretted zither, on which, as with Appalachian dulcimer, hummel, épinette des Vosges and others, a fretted string plays melody against open drone strings. Leading young player Lise from langeleik’s heartland, Valdres, plays hallings, lydarlåtts, springars and a polka.

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