Hardanger Fiddles in the UK

Being based in the UK does not limit your ability to view Hardanger fiddles because there are several excellent examples in UK musuems. Here we try to summarise what we know about all publicly accessible Hardanger fiddles in the UK. If you have any more information, or corrections, we would welcome your feedback.

Starting our list in the North, we have the Musical Instruments Museum at the University of Edinburgh. The instrument was made in 1929 by Åsmund V Källår.

Slightly further South, we have the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. They have one made in about 1845 by Erik Johnsen Helland, and one

We then come to a cluster of London-based instruments. The Royal College of Music matches it’s Northern sibling by having a (description of instrument).

The Horniman Musuem in (area of London) is (no pictures, possibly a case?).

And finally, in possibly an unexpected musuem we have the V&A musuem’s (describe instrument).

If all these pictures and decriptions have made you want to to buy a hardanger fiddle then we know of two UK-based hardanger fiddle makers (XXDescribe the two makers).