Låtfiol (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈlɔːtfɪˌuːl]) is a variety of violin developed in the 1980s when Swedish folk musicians became more interested in a version of the instrument with sympathetic strings and were trying to find a Swedish equivalent to the Norwegian hardanger fiddle. The Norwegian violin maker Kåre Leonard Knutsen built a number of instruments for Swedish musicians, some were copies of older instruments with 8 sympathetic strings in Swedish museums (i.e.
Låtfiol (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈlɔːtfɪˌuːl]) is a variety of violin developed in the 1980s when Swedish folk musicians became more interested in a version of the instrument with sympathetic strings and were trying to find a Swedish equivalent to the Norwegian hardanger fiddle. The Norwegian violin maker Kåre Leonard Knutsen built a number of instruments for Swedish musicians, some were copies of older instruments with 8 sympathetic strings in Swedish museums (i.e.
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