I don't yet know how to do that, but I want to learn to crochet a bit better and just saw "hardanger" lace which is made on counted cross stitch fabric. From Wordnik.com. [Welcome to the World] Reference
The hardingfele, or hardanger fiddle, is a specially tuned violin unique to a particular region of Norway, with many strings underneath the four bowed ones that provide harmonics and give the instrument a distinctive sound. From Wordnik.com. [Andrea Hoag, Loretta Kelley, & Charlie Pilzer, Hambo in the Snow (Azalea City Recordings, 2006)] Reference
Something like a hardanger but not quite the same. From Wordnik.com. [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference
Chamber Series, occasional Norwegian hardanger fiddler. From Wordnik.com. [The News Tribune - Tacoma - - HOMEPAGE] Reference
Her hobbies were sewing, quilting, hardanger and other handcrafts. From Wordnik.com. Reference
VALKYRIEN ALLSTARS - New dimensions in Norwegian hardanger fiddling. From Wordnik.com. [World Music Central] Reference
Its heritage shines with rosemaling, hardanger and baking demonstrations. From Wordnik.com. [JSOnline.com] Reference
Scandinavia has been jumping in recent years with a roots revival scene, epitomized by the young Norwegian hardanger fiddle trio, Valkyrien Allstars, who add a rock intensity to the songs of Eastern Norway in their first US appearance. From Wordnik.com. [World Music Central] Reference
Musically it's the monotonous pounding of hand-made drums, with some awesome choral chanting and accented by unusual instruments including but not limited to: goat horns, the hardanger fiddle, flutes, mouth harps, stones, trees and fire. From Wordnik.com. [MetalSucks] Reference
They don't play straight-up mountain music but rather combine its breakneck tempos and wild polyphony with the dense, rich harmonies of their own tradition, created in part by the sympathetic drone strings of the hardanger fiddle and nyckelharpa (which Esko Jarvela plays). From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
This seven-piece Scandinavian string ensemble includes Alina, Esko, and Antti Jarvela, children of the family at the core of the great Finnish wall-of-fiddles group JPP, and two hardanger fiddlers from Norway, Einar-Olov and Gjermund Larsen, who belong to a similarly revered musical clan. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
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