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Written in fRoots issue 322, 2010
 

GEIR EGIL LARSEN & BJØRN AKSDAL
Meråkerklarinetten I Solo Og Samspell

Etnisk Musikklubb EM46 (2009)

The huskily plummy sound of the rarely-heard Norwegian folk clarinet named after the place of its survival, Meråker, and the other extant folk clarinets – the Østerdal version and cow-horn tungehorn - and goat-horn trumpet bukkehorn, in solos and duets and with Geir Egil’s Frigg-fiddling sons Gjermund and Einar Olav. www.emcd.no


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