Read the bio below and try to give details on anders ljungqvist 's: - instrument - death place - caption - death date - genre - alias - birth date - name - background - image - birth place Bio: anders ljungqvist -lrb- may 10 , 1815 -- december 24 , 1896 -rrb- , also known as '' gas-anders '' -lrb- anders of the geese -rrb- , was a swedish fiddler from bjorklinge in uppland . gas-anders got his derogatory nickname as a child when he worked as a goose herder at a mansion house in gamla uppsala . as he grew up he never used the name gas-anders , and it was not until the 1920s that folk musicians started referring to him by that name , which was by now used as a positive epithet rather than a slur . although gas-anders made his living by working as a day labourer at the farms around bjorklige , he was known as a poor worker who usually brought his fiddle with him and played rather than worked . as a spelman he was very popular and extremely skilled , and it was said that nobody could sit still when he played dancing music -- not even he himself . as he played he would jump around , dancing on chairs and tables . rumour had it that nacken had taught him to play , signing a contract in blood on human bones from the churchyard . according to the stories , gas-anders played the polska he had learnt from nacken on his death bed , after which all four strings on his fiddle broke and he was able to die in peace . another story had it that gas-anders 's wife once put a bible on top of his fiddle , and after that it would never stay tuned . gas-anders left a legacy of folk music , upwards of 150 different melodies ; both tunes he himself had written and those he had learnt from other fiddlers . most of the tunes are eighth-note polskas . since fiddlers at the time played by ear , not from written music -lrb- something which is true for traditional folk musicians today as well -rrb- , much of gas-anders 's music was never saved for posterity . towards the end of his life he got rather deaf and had to bring a helper to tune his fiddle , but he kept playing at weddings and dances up until the final years of his life . he was a poor man when he died , and was buried in the communal part of the churchyard in...
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- instrument is fiddle- death place is bjorklinge , uppland , sweden- caption is statue of gas-anders by bjorklinge church- death date is 24 december 1896- genre is traditional nordic dance music- alias is gas-anders- birth date is 10 may 1815- name is anders ljungqvist- background is non_vocal_instrumentalist- image is bj100005.jpg- birth place is jumkil , uppland , sweden