Anders Buen
, Norway
I was born at the farm, "Gvåle" in Tuddal a small village in the middle of Telemark. Until I was about 6 yeras old we lived in an old house from 1800 with its characteristic furniture. There my father played the hardangerfiddle many hours a day if he was not rosepainting, his second occupation. The fiddles rested in the traditional bed, called "kronesenga". My mother used to sing while working at the kitchen or she also used to draw, write or play the piano. She was the organ player in the willage church. Father had his painting workshop i the first floor, and the furniture in the living room was all painted in style by him. There was a lot of music, song and colours in that living room.
At "Gvåle" did also grandpa and grandma live. (Margit og Gjermund Tjønn) They had cows and sheep, and I participated in the different doings at the farm. I used to follow grandpa everywhere, and copied and learnt from him. He also made hardingfiddles. He was at the workshop and I was watching him. When I was about 12-13 years old he helped me to make my first instrument.
Inspirators
The famous hardangerfiddleplayers Olav og Kjetil Løndal inspired me to keep on learning. Olav gave me a violin he wanted me to rebuild into a hardingfiddle. This was my second instrument. Kjetil made several fiddles himself. Seen by such positive persons ment much to me. All the time father, Knut, and my uncle, Hauk, has been mentors, cooperators and advisors. Father decorates the instruments, give creative ideas about how to do things and generously let me use the family workshop in Tuddal. He is also the ultimate sound tester. Today I play the instruments myself and feel capable of evaluating their quality on my own.
The summer 96 i got a scolarship from a norwegian lemonade producer "Solo", the "Solofondet".
Education in physics - it was possible to study the acoustics of the violin.
During education at the tecnical university of Trondheim I heard a special lecture "The Secret of the violin" by our acoustichian prof. Asbjørn Krokstad. He lectured over the tuning process of violin plates, things I had learnt from reading grandfather and great grandfathers journals. But still this was very interesting. He also demonstrated how a fully taped (bad sounding) viola sounded like a Guarneri after sending the string signal through a filter and amplifier with a caracteristics like a Guarneri, it sounded fantastic!
Later on I made the thesis together with Prof Johan Løkberg at the Institute of physics,Group for Applied Optics. He had a holography instrument that can measure tiny vibrations in structures like a violin by using laser light and an interference measurement method. The pictures to the right are recordings of a resonce in a Guadagnini made with that TV-Holography instrument.
I also had the opportunity to measure resonaces in several open instruments to get to know what the resonances look like. Those resonaces one could hear when tapping the plates and listening to them. Here grandfathers special method by keeping the head and ribs on the back while tuning it, was studied closely. I could see and measure what he had written about in his journal.
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