Haakon Solaas plays Fanitullen on the hardanger fiddle

This video is of Haakon Solaas, from the Sogn region of western Norway, playing the folk song "Fanitullen" in his home.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Fanitullen
• hardanger fiddle
• norway
• sogn
• solaas

[mike53341]

Give this man one million dollars! Or a beer.

[chillaxnagain]

I like how his mastery is so casual. He sitting around in a sweater, halfway turned around in his favorite chair absolutely killing this song.

[jessyquedens]

He's great and his fiddle is beautiful.

[MeapyMeaps]

I like how he looks so happy to be playing his fiddle. :)

[raulgares10]

hey este es el autentico papa noel¿

[SergioJdc]

An instrument very rare, but very beautiful too. I like very much the song.

Thanks for share.

Sorry for my english.

Sergio

[PopBubblewrappable]

@mike53341

Give him one million beers! He might not play as well afterwards, but no matter!

[EspritDeBottineQc]

@rizner12 I think you're right, cause I have a fiddle for christmas.

[MeapyMeaps]

Can somebody hook me up with this guy to teach me how to play that thing? :D

[jurdalf]

@uidsea its the main fashion here, everybody has that shirt and we wear it all the time, some even sleeps in it.

[ts2101]

@iwantpig hmmm... the more you know! Thanks.

[iwantpig]

@ts2101 "Fanitullen", or "The Devils Tune" was heard for the first time during a wedding in a valley in Norway in 1724. When the toastmaster went down to the cellar to get more beer. In the cellar the toastmaster saw a man sitting on the barrell of beer playing this tune on a fiddle held the wrong way around, pressing the neck of the fiddle against his chest and

stomping the beat on the barrell with a horse hoof. The fiddler was the devil.