Add Nyckelharpa as folkloristic string instrument
The swedish Nyckelharpa should be listet under: folkloristic string instrument (Erhu is allready listed). Nyckelharpa-Players are a growing comunity all over the world.
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A little OT, but it may be interesting to you: https://musescore.org/en/node/151636
Can you give more information about Nickelharpa? How is it notated? How many staves? Is it a transposing instrument? what its range?
In reply to Can you give more information by [DELETED] 5
Hi,
you'll find everything here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyckelharpa
The nyckelharpa has the range of a viola, and uses the same 4 strings, but it is written in violin clef. One stave, not transposing. For the lower notes you can use 8vb---
The nyckelharpa is very common in Sweden where it's modern form has been developed in the 1920s and 1930s
Fabian
In reply to Hi, you'll find everything by Fabian Payr
See https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/3148
In reply to See by Jojo-Schmitz
With the above PR it would sound like a viola, and it will be able to switch to tremolo and pizzicato. Is that ok for the nickelharpa?
In reply to With the above PR it would by [DELETED] 5
The sound of the nyckelharpa is quite particular, it resembles a little bit the Hardanger fiddle. The nyckelharpa has 12 sympathetic string (underneath the 4 melody strings) which give the instrument it's particular flavour. You can play pizzicato on it, and some players use vibrato - but vibrato is not very widely used.
For this piece i chose viola as nyckelharpa sound: https://musescore.com/user/8293926/scores/3734571
But in reality the nyckelharpa sounds quite different:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAROWiX5MGw
In reply to The sound of the nyckelharpa by Fabian Payr
We don't have a nyckelharpa sound in GM, so I guess viola is the closest match, right?
And having tremolo and pizzicato won't harm, I think.
In reply to We don't have a nyckelharpa by Jojo-Schmitz
I'll check the different sounds. Viola could be the best choice, indeed.
In reply to I'll check the different by Fabian Payr
Viola is OK!
In reply to Viola is OK! by Fabian Payr
PR got merged into master and 2.1