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See also:NYCKELHARPA (Swed. nyckel =See also:key, harpa=See also:harp; Ger. Schlusselfiedel) , a See also:kind of bowed hurdy-gurdy, much used in Scandinavia during the See also:late See also:middle ages, and still in use in some parts of See also:Sweden. It consists of a See also:body some 2 ft. See also:long, shaped like an elongated See also:viol, with sloping shoulders and highly arched See also:sound-See also:board glued over a less arched back, and ribs cut out of a single See also:block of See also:wood. There is no fingerboard, but along the See also:neck, arranged like frets, are a number of keys or wooden tangents, which when pressed inwards bring a little knob or See also:stud into contact with the first See also:string of thin See also:catgut, thus stopping it and raising the See also:pitch as in the hurdy-gurdy. At three points these keys also See also:act upon the third string. There are in the comparatively See also:modern See also:instruments usually four See also:melody strings of catgut and three drones of See also:fine spun See also:wire. The See also:bridge is quite See also:flat, so that when the See also:bow is passed over the strings, they all sound at once. The tailpiece is very long, extending over See also:half the length of the body, and the two See also:oval sound-holes, far removed from the strings, are at the tail end of the See also:instrument.
End of Article: NYCKELHARPA (Swed. nyckel =key, harpa=harp; Ger. Schlusselfiedel)
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