Hardingfele Loans (Adult)

The HFAA is offering the loan of twelve Hardanger fiddles, the "Iversen", the "Poast", the "1904", the "Lion", the "Løve", the "Wulffenstejn", the "Nielsen XX", the "Sandvik", and "Ada", "Anna", "Aaste", and "Guri", for a one-year period to promising adult or teen/older child students of Norwegian traditional fiddling who are residents of the United States. The Adult Student Hardingfele Loan Committee is now accepting applications for the loan period beginning  July 1 and ending June 15. Applicants should have previous bowed stringed instrument playing experience, and are required as a condition of the loan to take regularly scheduled lessons with a hardingfele teacher, either in person or via videoconference (Zoom, Facetime or similar). The application deadline is June 1 of the loan year. For more information please contact adultstudent@hfaa.org or president@hfaa.org.