On Saturday evening (a lovely spring night), we attended a music concert put on by the Swedish Folkdancers and Choir at the Agricola Finnish Church at York Mills and Yonge Street. Lovely, lovely tunes, some plaintive and some that make you tap your toes with joy. The highlight for me was one of the musical soloists, a talented young woman named Catherine. She played an old-style sweet-sounding instrument called the nyckelharpa. It has 16 strings, three rows of pegs that look like giant sized cribbage markers and you play it with a very short bow. Thisunique stringed wooden duck-billed platypus of an instrument is made in Sweden (leave it to the Swedes to wile away those long, dark alcohol-fueled Arctic months creating something so…
Tagged: beautiful music, fascinating stories, nyckelharpa, Thomas Roth
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