Description
Tagelharpa Black - Fir and Birch: Features
The black tagelharpa in fir and birch it has a very thick solid fir structure, and the back and soundboard are made of birch plywood, a stable and reliable material over time. The bridge and the tailpiece are made of National Walnut, worked by hand as well as the pegs, built one by one individually. The tagelharpa is oil finished, as are the tailpiece, bridge and pegs. The three strings are made of black horsehair.
The bow is made of walnut, finished as the instrument and it mounts blond horsehair.
History
The Tagelharpa (also called Talharpa) is a bowed lyre orgined in northern Europe. It spread widely in Scandinavia after the Viking age and is still used in some of the northern territories (of particular importance the tradition of the Estonian islands). Its existence in medieval Scandinavia is witnessed by artistic and archaeological sources, such as the wall painting in Røldal (XII-XIII century) and the sculpture of Trondheim Cathedral (XIV century). Also widely spread its close Finnish relative, the Jouhikko.
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