Norden Sackpipa Association of the Americas (NSAA)

Hello,

For years we anticipated with relish the coming of Olle Gallmo to North America to conduct our first säckpipa workshop. As you are aware, that actually took place around this time last year ...

The workshop was a success for teaching and polishing our Nordic tune repertoire (mostly fiddlers). There was an assemblage from Minnesota, Wisconsin and Sweden in attendance from Friday through Sund ...

Tex...Per Gudmundson (now) director of Rattviks Folkmusikens Hus, made a recording some years ago which has been out of print for a few years. Maybe, if enough of us would like a copy, we could persu ...

Hej, Olle, are they piper riksspelman or fiddle?
As if they needed a geography lesson, I wrote informing them Wisconsin was half way between Sweden and California. I'm offering free room and board f ...

Hi forgot to say what I came up her for...they're beautifully done, no question about it. Very Happy

Without my glasses they look like American wild cherry, which brings up a good point, is there a BEST wood to use in fabricating pipes? Since some is more porous than others, I'd suspect we at Norden ...

MY PARTICULARS:

Name-Jerry Revelle (Dalarna ancestry)
Location-West Central Wisconsin, USA
Primary instrument-Harmonica
Secondary instrument-Nordic Violin (well, I do slip once in a while to blu ...

Welcome to the NSAA forum.

Norden Folk's spelmanslag (playing group) hope to help the builders/players/want to be players in The Americas to kick-start the playing of this great instrument. We're ...