Monthly Archives: September 2012

Karlholmsbruk & Jernbergs

By lydia | Published: September 9, 2012

Two sets of adventures on Sunday: Leif was planning a trip to visit Harry (who built my nyckelharpa) on Sunday morning, and I had a couple of repair requests for Harry too, so Andrea and I joined the party for the ride up to Karlholmsbruk. We had a nice visit, of course including fika. I […]

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Kulturnatten

By lydia | Published: September 9, 2012

On Saturday, Andrea and I went into Uppsala for Culture Night, which is kind of like having a First Night celebration on the first weekend of school (in a university town) instead of on New Year’s Eve, and wasn’t as much warmer as one might have hoped. Lots of street food vendors (more candy than […]

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Lighted trail in Tobo

By lydia | Published: September 6, 2012

Do we have these in the US? Sweden has illuminated woodland trails (elljusspår is short for elektriskt ljus spår) where you can go jogging (or walking or skiing) safely when it’s dark out. Which I am assured it will often be. Ours is an evidently standard 2.5 km loop. And the electric bulbs weren’t on […]

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Folk music history & Tolfta kyrka

By lydia | Published: September 6, 2012

On Wednesday our special guest lecturer was Gunnar Ahlbäck. We spent the morning here at school. We started on the first floor, learning lots of detailed history about the founding of ESI and about some of the various photos and paintings on the first floor. (As well as being a historian, Gunnar is the artist […]

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Harpa maintenance and ergonomics

By lydia | Published: September 4, 2012

Monday and Tuesday we worked with Olov. In the mornings we played a fair amount, but also we focused on ways to make our playing and practicing more comfortable and effective. We learned bow exercises and stretches, we talked about different ways to sit and different kinds of harpa straps, and about temperaments and string […]

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Väsen in Viksta

By lydia | Published: September 3, 2012

Väsen played a free concert last night in Viksta kyrka. Several ESI students have cars, so we all piled into three of the cars and trooped over there. It’s about a half-hour drive. It was awesome. We are very lucky. I don’t have anything pithy to say but I didn’t want the event to go […]

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