Transcipt: E1 S1 Kirsty Money

Kirsty Money“And also the technique is different and it's something that I have to work on all the time. Because with a nyckelharpa, you don't want to crush the sound. Whereas when you're bowing on a violin, you want to put your arm weight from your back into the string so that you can get the string spinning.

Well, because you have all of these resonators on the nyckelharpa, you just want to start it resonating and then let it go. So it's like shooting arrows or something. So when you start, once I'm gliding on the string, you got to take the weight out. That was the hardest thing and still is the hardest thing for me in terms of it being just automatic, because especially if I'm playing going from violin to nyckelharpa, the bowing technique is quite different. The left hand I can figure out. Like when you're shifting up high on a violin, you got to have your fingering in a little plan to how you're going to get down, and it's the same thing. It's exactly same thing on the nyckelharpa, except you have keys and you got to get used to where your keys are on your instrument and muscle memory and all that. But the bowing is very different.”