Friday 18 October 2019

Polkette

Hello!
It's another silverbasharpa tune this week. A polkette. I play it quite steadily in the video. It's quite a jolly little tune, so have fun with it!
:))
Vicki

Friday 4 October 2019

Kalle Ågrens Vals

Hello!
I learnt this tune from the playing of Lars Wahlund. I'm on a mission to learn lots and lots of silverbasharpa tunes. This tune was taught to me as being written by Kalle Ågren, who was the original owner of my silverbasharpa, it feels like an honour to be playing this tune on this instrument! (The tune does sound a bit like another tune that I don't think was written by Kalle, so maybe it should really just be after rather than by? If I'm corrected I'll update this page!!)
Enjoy!
:))
Vicki


PS I've been trying to reply to the comment below, but it doesn't seem to appear. Because I think my reply is important I'll copy it here until I can work out why it's not showing up.

My reply to Unknown in the comments:
No offence taken. The video you quote was one of the sources I used to learn the tune. I also learnt it from a gentlemen, who learnt it from Kalle. I think the major difference would be that I'm playing it on a silverbasharpa and not a modern three row chromatic and there aren't accordions bashing out their oom-pah underneath. I also used a video of Kalle partially playing a tune that is really, really similar - https://youtu.be/0Rr24BdYHUk
I would really love to hear your version of playing the tune. Unfortunately you've come up as unknown, so I don't know if you'll see my reply. Did you hear Kalle himself playing the tune? It would have been lovely on that video clip I posted if Kalle had been playing the silverbas I now have (which was his), but you can see quite clearly he's not. :)