The HFAA offers DVDs that offer instruction for and history
about the Hardanger fiddle.
To order, download the order
form and print. Please include the alphanumeric item number
found at the end of each item description and send your check or
money order by snail mail to the address on the order
form. Note the
prices for members and for non-members.
An Introduction to Hardanger Fiddling with Bernt Balchen
Balchen
demonstrates the position for holding the instrument and hardingfele
tuning
and playing techniques, and performs six Valdres and Telemark
springar tunes from his
Course for Beginners manual. Picture and sound are not of professional
quality, but the video is very useful
as a learning aid. 48 minutes. Member price: $20.00 / Non-members:
$30.00 [VC001].
More Hardanger Fiddling with Bernt Balchen, Jr. (Two
in One)
Balchen performs the ten tunes from his Two
in One manual, with an explanation of differences
between tunes from different areas. 42 minutes. Member price:
$20.00
/ Nonmembers:
$30.00 [VC002].
Learn the Valdresspringar
Taught
by Bernt Balchen with Hilda Kringstad. Each dance figure is explained
and
demonstrated step-by-step. Member price: $20.00 / Non-members:
$30.00 [VC003].
Those Who Went West (De som dro vest)
Contains
Parts I and II, titled Fiddling
in the Midwest (Slåttespel
i midtvesten) of the
multi-part television series produced in 1986 by Norwegian
National Broadcasting
(NRK). An in-depth look at the hardingfele in America from
its beginnings to the present,
with interviews of Andrea Een, Harold Sorensen, Thor Quale,
Carl Narvestad, Ron
Poast, Becky Weis, and Sue Overhauser, among others. Includes
important archival
footage of Anund Roheim playing and dancing, and fiddler
Gunnar Odden, plus dancers
Hans Haugen, Anna Roheim, Ole Braaten, and Hilda Kringstad
in Decorah, Iowa in
1969. In English, with Norwegian subtitles. 80 min. Member
price: $20.00 / Non-members:
$30.00 [VC004].