As usual, we played the 2nd Saturday Contra Dance in Boise, and had a fairly decent turn-out. Always fun to play for dancers.
I took along the new Hardanger fiddle for its public debut. Although it sounds tremendously different than my normal fiddle under my ear, I don't think many dancers noticed the difference. When one is dancing, one is more concerned with where one is going than on most other things in the Universe at that time. The fact that folks didn't pause and say, "What the heck is that?", is probably a good sign, I suppose.
Didn't get any photos myself. My wife, our piano player, grabbed a snapshot as we were setting up the sound system prior to the dance.
The Hardanger is in the fiddle stand, pegs showing, and my arm indicates I must have been sawing away on the regular fiddle at the time. I didn't know photography was happening at the time.
Played most of the dance on the regular fiddle, but used the Hardanger for both waltz sets and a couple others.
The first waltz, midway through the dance, we played Ashgrove in G in medley with Hökpers vals in Dm. For the final waltz, we played Josefins Dopvals in F.
We also did an introductory session on Schottische, with Chris and Jody leading the dancers. We played Sjutti Johan Schottische in D, with myself on Hardanger.
And we played one contra set with the Hardanger, a medley of Byrkveen Reinlender in Am, followed by a tune we got from David Kaynor called simply Dm Schottische.
No injuries resulted!
Off to rehearse with the Scandiband this afternoon, and then on to our Scottish Country Dance club's St. Andrews Ball & Dinner. Busy weekend.
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