Wednesday Word: Nyckelharpa
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Nyckelharpa - noun.
Unusual instruments are always a good source of unusual words and today's specimen is the nyckelharpa hailing from Sweden, although found in other countries as well. Meaning "key harp" or "keyed fiddle", it's a kind of bowed string instrument. Keyed string instruments date back to the 1200s and sometimes earlier, but, for whatever reason, this type of instrument was predominantly found and used in Sweden.
Unusual instruments are always a good source of unusual words and today's specimen is the nyckelharpa hailing from Sweden, although found in other countries as well. Meaning "key harp" or "keyed fiddle", it's a kind of bowed string instrument. Keyed string instruments date back to the 1200s and sometimes earlier, but, for whatever reason, this type of instrument was predominantly found and used in Sweden.
By Karl Gruber - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link
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