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The making of Wessmanlandsbitar

Or, how we learned to play the unplayable

In February 2022, me and Bruno Andersen released the album Wessmanlandsbitar on the record company Gammalthea. It is a collection of sixteen tunes which all originate from the county of Västmanland (which lies to the south of Dalarna and to the west of Stockholm) in Sweden. On the record I play Swedish bagpipes in different tunings and Bruno plays hurdy-gurdy. These two instruments are seldom played together in Swedish traditional music and the music from Västmanland has most certainly never been played this way before.

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