{"id":785,"date":"2021-10-12T21:53:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T21:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/?page_id=785"},"modified":"2021-10-12T22:13:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T22:13:33","slug":"polska-efter-axel-axelsson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/polska-efter-axel-axelsson\/","title":{"rendered":"Polska efter Axel Axelsson"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u00a0 This\u00a0Polska efter Axel Axelsson\u00a0<\/strong>is interesting in that we get the tune from a non-instrumental musician.\u00a0 \u00a0Axel Axelsson was the son of an outstanding fiddler in the province of S\u00f6dermanland by the name of Melker Andersson, who died in 1936.\u00a0 He tried to teach Axel to play the fiddle, but he was not a good teacher, and Axel tired of it, and never became a fiddler.<\/p>

\u00a0 He had a good musical ear, though, and remembered his father’s tunes, whistling them for Olof Andersson, a folkmusic collector in 1936.<\/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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So, the tune was preserved in this way and has become a favorite\u00a0sl\u00e4ngpolska\u00a0<\/strong>in S\u00f6dermanland.<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0On YouTube I found a video of a Japanese group playing this tune.\u00a0 It is an unusual combination of lead fiddle, second fiddle, accordion, cello, wooden flute, and silver flute.\u00a0 The lead musicians do have the flavor of the Swedish tune, though, and it is definitely danceable.\u00a0 \u00a0Listen to it here<\/a>.<\/p>

\u00a0 To the left is a photo of the group of S\u00f6dermanland fiddlers I got this tune from in 1974.<\/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 Axel Axelsson\u00a0is interesting in that we get the tune from a non-instrumental musician.\u00a0 \u00a0Axel Axelsson was the son of an outstanding fiddler in the province of S\u00f6dermanland by the name of Melker Andersson, who died in 1936.\u00a0 He tried to teach Axel to play the fiddle, but he was not a good […]<\/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-785","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","wpbf-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/785","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=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}