Hardangers made by Anders Buen

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Hi! I'm 41 years old and come from Tuddal, a small willage in mountain rich Telemark. I run a small business building, repairing and regraduating hardangers and violins in family tradition. Currently I live and work in Oslo as an full time architectural acoustics consultant. I play the hardanger  and dance the Telespringar and -gangar, traditional folk dances.

My first hardanger teacher was my fathers uncle, Gjermund Tjønn (1902-1992) wich lived on the same small farm as I grew up. He learnt from his father and brother, Hans Johnsen (1877-1964) and John Tjønn (1899-1966) running a hardanger family business since about 1920. I've also learnt much about colours, varnishing, rose decorations and tone from my rose painter and fiddler father, Knut Buen (b. 1948). Much good advice has also been collected with my fiddler and maker uncle, Hauk Buen (b. 1933). Both are well known folk-musicians and are the main carriers of the east Telemark style hardanger playing today. Hauk is a luthier as well and some of the best  hardanger players today use instruments made by him.

Some products and some lines about how it started and on my civil engineering thesis, "Vibrations in violins". Some pictures of instruments I have made You may download some sound samples of some of my instruments on the pages in the menu.

- The fiddle you see to the right is being played in the USA. It was sold in 1997. Most of my instruments are sold abroad.

Email: mailto:felebuen@consultant.online.no

Links:

• Knut Buen, and my uncle Hauk Buen
• My employer: BREKKE & STRAND akustikk as
• The Violin Society of America
• Catgut Acoustical Society Home of Violins
• The Hardanger Fiddle Association of America
• Gunnar Ihlen, violinist in the Norwegian National Opera Orchestra
• Sveinung Lillebjerka
• Torgeir Straand
• Aly Bain (Father to my youngest sister, Sophie)
• Vidar Lande - Our only hardingfiddle professor.
• Magne-Olav Selland
• Johan Westman and his band Ninja2000
• Anne Hytta - A great player, world musichian, composer and journalist.
• Hornaas musikk
• Loretta Kelley
• Leif Rygg
• Bernt Balchen jr.
• Sverre Sandvik
• Ole Johan Løkberg

Some technical and professional links:

• A good measurement program: WinMLS Home Page
• Want to experience the scandinavian folk culture? 

Amplitudeplot from  TV-holography measurements of the first structural resonance , T1. The whiter the higher the avtivity. You see the backside in a mirror to the right. 
Vibration phase of the resonace above. Darker and lighter areas are moving in opposite directions like a "breathing" body.  

Links to family and friends: 
I am the oldest of seven sisters and five brothers. Two of them have their own home pages:

• My brother is fond of computers and programming
• My sister Margit, is fond of western horses: Buen Performance Horses 
• My uncle Asbjørn makes cottages: Buen Stav og Laft 
• My uncle Per and my cousin Jon Elling makes cottages: Buen Hytter 
• Per Anders Buen Garnås is playing the hardangerfiddle. He is my cousin.

My mother, Hanne Kjersti Yndestad (b. 1951), work as a high school music teacher in south Sweden. She is a skilled folk singer and enjoys writing. Read her blogg.

These have supported my work financially:

• TEKNA Teknisk-naturvitenskaplig forening, 2004 (The Norwegian Civil Engineer Association)
• Solofondet "Possibilities for you between 15-and 25 years with good ideas", 1987
• Telemark County Concil -A scolarship for young folk artists in 1987
• My father, Knut Buen