{"id":823,"date":"2021-10-29T01:42:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T01:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/?page_id=823"},"modified":"2021-10-29T01:42:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T01:42:46","slug":"hultklappens-vals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/hultklappens-vals\/","title":{"rendered":"Hultkl\u00e4ppens Vals"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u00a0\u00a0Hultkl\u00e4ppens Vals\u00a0<\/strong>is one of the most widespread tunes played by the fiddler known as Hultkl\u00e4ppen.<\/p>

His real name was Pehr Abrahamsson Hult Alc\u00e9n, born in 1834 and died in 1898 in Bergsj\u00f6, H\u00e4lsingland.\u00a0 \u00a0He was a unique character, often considered a “low-life”.\u00a0 \u00a0He drank profusely, wore old clothes (in the style of 100 years earlier!), and was also an absolutely brilliant fiddler.<\/p>

He was married for a time, and his wife’s influence had him clean up his act quite a bit.\u00a0 He was devastated by her death, though, and fell back into his old ways.<\/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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He never wrote down any of his tunes, but many have come down to us through fiddlers who heard him play.\u00a0 This is not the only waltz he played by any means, but it is the best known.<\/p>

Here<\/a> is a YouTube video of about 50 musicians playing it together at a fiddle festival in Bjur\u00e5ker in H\u00e4lsingland.\u00a0 \u00a0Most have fiddles, but there is a nyckelharpa or two, some accordions, some guitars, a bass, and even a ukulele!<\/p>

To the left is a picture of a record jacket devoted to Hultkl\u00e4ppen’s tunes.\u00a0 \u00a0The music is played by Thore H\u00e4rdelin, and the scene is of Hultkl\u00e4ppen playing on his wife’s grave on Christmas Eve.<\/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\u00a0Hultkl\u00e4ppens Vals\u00a0is one of the most widespread tunes played by the fiddler known as Hultkl\u00e4ppen. His real name was Pehr Abrahamsson Hult Alc\u00e9n, born in 1834 and died in 1898 in Bergsj\u00f6, H\u00e4lsingland.\u00a0 \u00a0He was a unique character, often considered a “low-life”.\u00a0 \u00a0He drank profusely, wore old clothes (in the style of 100 years earlier!), […]<\/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-823","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","wpbf-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/823","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=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}