Talk:Talharpa

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Voluspá[edit]

I have removed the unsourced information about the instrument refered to in Voluspá sometimes being bowed. The language used in the poem is "ok slo hörpu", which directly translates to "and hit the harp". This obviously doesn't refer to bowing. --84.213.45.97 (talk) 02:52, 20 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely!

I would like to point out that interpretations referring to the instrument as an instrument of Scandinavian origin are misleading. Nieminen and other related works have also been strongly criticized. If the bow harp was known in Scandinavia, it was not talharpa, but one of their relatives. Talharpa has been played only in Estonia by Estonians and Estonian Swedes. The closest relative to the instrument is the Finnish jouhikko. The most likely theory is that the instrument, as we see it today, developed in Estonia, and it was also known by areas bordering Estonia, who probably came into contact with Estonian instrument players. Since the period of use of the instrument coincides with the Viking Age in Estonia, the instrument can of course be considered romantically as a "Viking instrument", if someone so wishes.

To consider Trondheim's instrument player as a talharpa player is also arbitrary and has also often been the victim of different interpretations - what we see there is some kind of instrument played with a bow, which, unfortunately, does not look like a talharpa. As to say - guitar and bandura can be similar but one is not the other. 37.157.115.119 (talk) 15:57, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Blo 185.17.102.251 (talk) 16:33, 17 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Estonian foto[edit]

The man on the "An Estonian man playing the hiiu kannel (or, talharpa), ca. 1920." is Johannes Rosenstrauch alias "Kandle Juss" from Estonia with his self-made instrument. Johannes wasn't traditional hiiu kannel player, he played kannel. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.29.212.247 (talk) 08:05, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]