About me
My name is Jon Magnusson and trough older sources and information from reader I have gathered data about Swedish violins with sympathetic strings and created this website. I live in Uppsala but grew up in Sollentuna just outside Stockholm and in my house we had a notebook called Folkmusik från Småland och Öland by Magnus Gustafsson. There is a picture of the neck from a double-decker on the cover of the book and I appreciated the aestethics of this instrument with it's lion head with crooked teeth and a long tongue. I think I have had some kind of plan to build a violin similar to this since I was a child. I started to build my first violin in 2003 but the plan was to build a standard violin first and later build a fiddle with sympathetic strings. The project stretched over several years and when it was time to start with the neck I had changed my mind and I thought that it might be smart to build a fiddle with sympathetic strings as a first project since it would then not compete with the instruments I already had, it would instead be something different and maybe useful regardless of the quality. I also made some basic research about Swedish violins with sympathetic strings and started a blog to record my findings. Some people found the blog which inspired me to more research and after a while people contacted and told me they had interesting instruments. Now, more than a decade later we all know much more about Swedish fiddles with sympathetic strings thanks to all contribution from interested readers. Nowadays there is also an active facebook group where most of the discussion on the subject take place. Just search for fioler med resonanssträngar
References
- Axel Sjölander - spelman i Grönadal, Magnus Gustafsson
- Beiträge zur Geschichte und Literatur der Viola d’amore, Werner Eginhard Köhler
- Bidrag till kännedomen om viola d'amore, Daniel Fryklund
- Carl Pipers och Carl Gustaf Rehnschiölds koncept till utgående skrifvelser under deras fångenskap i Ryssland 1709-1715, Per Sörensson, 1911
- Dagbok från Poltava: utdrag ur dagbok 1708-1709 förd av fältprästen vid Smålands kavalleri Johan Siöman, Jonas Barck, 1993, ISBN - 9197205206
- Fioler, Anne Nilsson
- Folkmusik från Småland och Öland, Magnus Gustafsson
- Fångars elände, Alf Åberg, Natur & Kultur, 1991, ISBN: 9127027430
- Karolinerna efter Poltava, Vera Efron. Lind & Co, 2017, ISBN: 9789174618860
- Karolinska krigsfångar i Sibirien, Galina Sjebaldina, Svenskt Militärhistoriskt Bibliotek, ISBN 978-91-85789-76-4
- Kulturens årsbok 1937
- Kulturens årsbok 1939
- Kärleksfiol, Anders Rosén och Pelle Björnlert
- Mitschwingende Saiten : Musikinstrumente mit Resonanzsaiten, Eva Küllmer
- Nyckelharpan, Jan Ling
- Några svenska lut- och fiolmakare under 1700-talet, Hedvig Boivie from Fataburen nr 58 (1921)
- Officerare och högre stabsbetjänte vid Norra skånska kavalleriregementet åren 1658–1709 [Del I-VI], Christopher von Warnstedt, from Släkt och Hävd 1993–1996
- Poltava - berättelsen om en armés undergång, Peter Englund, 1988, Atlantis, ISBN - 9174868349
- Skånska kavalleriregementet 1658-1928 : till minne av de gångna 290 åren, Max Schürer von Waldheim, 1948
- Svensk fiolbyggarkonst, Bengt Nilsson
- Svenska Låtar Södermanland
- Violinmakarsläkten Mothe från Ängelholm, Paul Wilstadius, from Släkt och Hävd nr 3 1963
- Över ämnet: Svenska understrängade folkliga fioler, Lars Söderström