Search this site. Sympathetic strings are used to enhance the sound of an instrument. Brand New. read more... Our price £68.15 More Details. Despatch will be delayed Set of playing strings only. 3. We use Hardanger strings in most cases, but a few fiddle to hardanger converts prefer violin strings. Our Hardanger fiddle is a simplified version of a traditional Hardanger, made with a violin scroll and without ornamentation. It is a well playable instrument of medium price-range. Pirastro Hardanger Fiddle Strings, SET. hardanger fiddle i prefer to call ... what makes this instrument a hardingfele is the four symathetic strings running through a channel in the neck. SYMPATHETIC STRINGS highlights the fiddle makers, musicians, dancers and apprentices who have formed an ardent, close-knit community of folk tradition … Watch. The understrings are mandolin strings, plain wire, principal strings are Thomastik Vision 3/4 violin strings - not gut but cheap! Pirastro Hardanger Fiddle Strings - Resonating set. Description. Please contact us for more information. Customers participate in the building process by selecting the woods, decoration designs, inlay designs, and varnish colors. Five upper strings is very unusual and certainly not standard: usually there are four upper strings (and usually only the top string is steel, the rest are gut) and four or five understrings. The body is copied directly from an award-winning instrument by Sveinung Gyovland.This historic instrument had excellent tone and sustain, so we followed the outline, arching and thicknesses faithfully. Other instruments which have more include the sitar with 11-13 sympathetic strings and sarod with 15 sympathetic strings, and the sarangi which has a total of 37 sympathetics. Prices will vary depending on the amount of decoration and inlay. The bass string that is the violin G and the hardanger A is most often written in the notation described above. 2. from China. Brand New. It was partly made with help of a CNC-router and finely reworked by Sigvald Rørlien, master of Hardanger fiddle making. $999.00. 1 in stock 2 x N10.5, 2 x N11 steel E strings. This Hardanger fiddle was made in 2018 at the Ole Bull Academy's workshop. Fundamentally even today it is still possible to use plain gut strings for the lowest strings of the gamba, however the stiffness and thickness of the mono-filament of the gut string is a considerable impairment to playability of the deeper notes. Each Wulffenstejn hardanger fiddle is a personalized hand crafted work of art. Some instruments have only a few sympathetic strings such as the Hardanger fiddle (pictured above right). Resonating strings sold separately. Norwegian fiddle 4*5 strings Hardanger 9 strings violin great sound hard case. 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