{"id":1535,"date":"2022-02-28T15:05:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T15:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/?page_id=1535"},"modified":"2022-03-08T22:10:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T22:10:13","slug":"polska-efter-pusten","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/polska-efter-pusten\/","title":{"rendered":"Polska efter Pusten"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u00a0 This\u00a0Polska efter Pusten<\/strong> is a very special tune in Sweden.\u00a0 It is from the repertoire of a fiddler named\u00a0Jonas Persson Wik<\/strong>, who lived from 1895 to 1891.\u00a0 Wik was known as “Pusten”, some say because of his leather breeches puffing air when he walked – “pust” being the sound made.<\/p>

\u00a0 Pusten was an influential fiddler from the village of Rogsta, in H\u00e4lsingland.\u00a0 Among the tunes in his repertoire are several polskas unique to his legacy alone.\u00a0 \u00a0They have no variants in other parts of Sweden.<\/p>

I was told once that a H\u00e4lsingland fiddler played some of Pusten’s tunes in Norway once, and an elderly woman told him that she recognized them as tunes her father had played.\u00a0 \u00a0Her father was from Russia.\u00a0 Rogsta is near the Baltic coast, and Russian ships used to go to Sweden for both peaceful and warlike purposes.\u00a0 It is very possible that some Russian musician met Pusten on some occasion and exchanged some tunes with him.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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This particular Pusten Polska is nicknamed “H\u00f6ga Pusten” (“High Pusten”) to differentiate it from some of the others.\u00a0 \u00a0It is one of the first H\u00e4lsingland tunes I learned on my first time in Sweden, in 1974.<\/p>

Here <\/a>is a YouTube recording of it from 2004.\u00a0 \u00a0It was played by a class of young people in a workshop of H\u00e4lsingland tunes.\u00a0 \u00a0It is played first on recorder with pump organ backup, but finishes with the whole group in grand style.<\/p>

To the left is a photo of the old fishermen’s huts in Hudiksvall, the port city just south of the village of Rogsta.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Here is a video of me playing “H\u00f6ga Pusten”, with the ornamentation I first learned with it.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 This\u00a0Polska efter Pusten is a very special tune in Sweden.\u00a0 It is from the repertoire of a fiddler named\u00a0Jonas Persson Wik, who lived from 1895 to 1891.\u00a0 Wik was known as “Pusten”, some say because of his leather breeches puffing air when he walked – “pust” being the sound made. \u00a0 Pusten was an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1535","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","wpbf-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}