The HFAA offers DVDs that offer instruction for and history about the Hardanger fiddle.

To order, download the order form and print. Please include the alphanumeric item number found at the end of each item description and send your check or money order by snail mail to the address on the order form. Note the prices for members and for non-members.

An Introduction to Hardanger Fiddling with Bernt Balchen

Balchen demonstrates the position for holding the instrument and hardingfele tuning and playing techniques, and performs six Valdres and Telemark springar tunes from his Course for Beginners manual. Picture and sound are not of professional quality, but the video is very useful as a learning aid. 48 minutes. Member price: $19.95 / Non-members: $29.95 [VC001].

More Hardanger Fiddling with Bernt Balchen, Jr. (Two in One)

Balchen performs the ten tunes from his Two in One manual, with an explanation of differences between tunes from different areas. 42 minutes. Member price: $19.95 / Nonmembers: $29.95 [VC002].

Learn the Valdresspringar

[This title is currently unavailable.] Taught by Bernt Balchen with Hilda Kringstad. Each dance figure is explained and demonstrated step-by-step. Member price: $19.95 / Non-members: $29.95 [VC003].

Those Who Went West (De som dro vest)

[This title is currently unavailable.] Contains Parts I and II, titled Fiddling in the Midwest (Slåttespel i midtvesten) of the multi-part television series produced in 1986 by Norwegian National Broadcasting (NRK). An in-depth look at the hardingfele in America from its beginnings to the present, with interviews of Andrea Een, Harold Sorensen, Thor Quale, Carl Narvestad, Ron Poast, Becky Weis, and Sue Overhauser, among others. Includes important archival footage of Anund Roheim playing and dancing, and fiddler Gunnar Odden, plus dancers Hans Haugen, Anna Roheim, Ole Braaten, and Hilda Kringstad in Decorah, Iowa in 1969. In English, with Norwegian subtitles. 80 min. Member price: $19.95 / Non-members: $29.95 [VC004].

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