{"id":977,"date":"2021-11-19T02:05:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T02:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/?page_id=977"},"modified":"2022-09-27T19:12:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T19:12:58","slug":"stens-vals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/stens-vals\/","title":{"rendered":"Stens Vals"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u00a0 Stens Vals\u00a0<\/b>is another waltz from Dalarna that is widely known in Sweden.\u00a0 \u00a0Although recognized as a traditional fiddle tune, it has also been adopted by old-time Gammaldans bands and accordionists.<\/p>

In 1939 several fiddlers from Dalarna but living in Stockholm formed a group called “Dalaf\u00f6reningens Spelmanslag” (The Dalarna Association’s Fiddlers’ Team).\u00a0 \u00a0Many of the members were outstanding traditional players who had a love for the old fiddle music.<\/p>

Among these was Hans B\u00f6rtas from the town of R\u00e4ttvik.\u00a0 \u00a0B\u00f6rtas led the group for many years, and This is one of the tunes that he popularized.\u00a0 He himself got the tune from Pers Hans Olsson of R\u00e4ttvik.<\/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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By the way, “Sten” means “stone” or “rock” in Swedish, but it is also a fairly common man’s name.<\/p>

Here<\/a> is an interesting YouTube video from Japan of a Japanese woman playing Stens Vals very nicely on the nyckelharpa.\u00a0 \u00a0I don’t know if it is a left-handed harpa or if she just recorded it in mirror image.<\/p>

\u00a0To the left is a popular tourist sight in R\u00e4ttvik.\u00a0 It is a full-sized wooden horse modeled after the small wooden carvings in the R\u00e4ttvik style.<\/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 Stens Vals\u00a0is another waltz from Dalarna that is widely known in Sweden.\u00a0 \u00a0Although recognized as a traditional fiddle tune, it has also been adopted by old-time Gammaldans bands and accordionists. In 1939 several fiddlers from Dalarna but living in Stockholm formed a group called “Dalaf\u00f6reningens Spelmanslag” (The Dalarna Association’s Fiddlers’ Team).\u00a0 \u00a0Many of the […]<\/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-977","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","wpbf-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/977","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=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}