Music

Swedish Folk Instruments

• Download an introduction to a selection of Swedish folk instruments, drawn largely from Jan Ling's Svensk folkmusik: Bondens musik i helg och söcken.

• Watch a video that combines that content with recordings of some of the instruments (nyckelharpa, fiol, hummel, psalmodikon, spilåpipa, dragspel).

Listen

Visit our YouTube channel for recordings of Swedish folk music, including a playlist featuring recordings and photographs collected by Jan Ling as part of his doctoral thesis Nyckelharpan - Studier i ett folkligt musikinstrument (The Nyckelharpa - Studies of a Folk Instrument) (1967).

Nyckelharpa. From Länsmuseet Gävleborg, CC BY-SA, via Digitalt Museum.

Okänd spelman [Otto Larsson], photograph by Jan Ling. From National Collections of Music, Theatre and Dance, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.