The cheapest Nyckelharpa... sounds HOW ?
Channel: Emelie Waldken
Date: 2022-09-25

Plywood Swedish instrument to assemble yourself... sounds like a joke, right ? Well, let's have a closer look at the Nerdy Harpa, its sound and specifics.
The Nerdy Harpa website (and Nerdy Gurdy) https://www.nerdygurdy.nl/
Huge thanks to Jaap Brand for sending me this instrument !

0:01 Intro
1:10 Nerdy Harpas (& Gurdies)
2:18 Cutting down costs
3:44 Sound sample 1
4:21 First impressions
5:49 Main problem of this 4-rows prototype
8:54 Sound comparison
10:58 Reviewing as musician
11:53 More details
13:26 Sound sample 2
14:23 Get it or not ? Situation
17:19 Link & community

For comparison, my (usual) nyckelharpa (used in this video) is built by Bernard Dimet & Jean-Claude Condi from France, and is of middle-high price range. Also one of the strongest sounding nyckelharpas I've ever tried (including high-end ones).

I'm Emelie Waldken, I play mostly Scandinavian traditional music on fiddles and nyckelharpa. I also teach music and folk dancing.
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Recorded September 2022 in Uppland, Sweden.
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