Hökpers vals & Carica polska

[@lizamortensen5697]

Fantastic👏👏👏Don’t know how many times I’ve listened to this. The whole performance is🔝♥️

[@MiaMarine]

Thank you for lifting my spirits! ❤️

[@hannadahlstrom7085]

This is one of my favorit KZbin Clip 😊. You are fantastic player Mia and it is a complete you to dance while you are playing🤗🤗 hope we can start dancing again soon !!

[@jroura48]

From Barcelona: Bravo! a beautiful melody and a fantastic interpretation full of sensitivity and technique. Thank you for this gift.

[@MiaMarine]

Oh, and the first tune is "Hökpers vals", by Lars Hökpers. The second one is called "Carica polska" because my new violin is called "Carica".

[@kashakroger1692]

Greetings from Finland! I could write a whole essay about this. Instead, I will sum it up with that it took about 5 seconds of playing before I hit "like".

[@westernartglass]

Wonderful tunes to play inside my head while walking to and fro in my neighborhood...beauty playing!

[@darekkot-c8i]

respect from polska

[@markwalstrom2271]

Fantastic sound Mia. Really lovely playing on an equally lovely instrument

[@andersborgehed1254]

Så sjukt bra spelat, sätter på detta klipp varje gång jag behöver energi på jobbet. Funkar varje gång, tack Mia :)

[@johnhirschfield6015]

Stunningly sweet Polskas

[@drummerboy1390]

Stunning. Subscribed.

[@pamelacarley1936]

Stunning!

[@Gedagnors]

Gorgeous music, stunning playing and I like the fact that the microphone is "Yeti - Blue"! =)

[@Haydn-WAM]

Hennes intonation och ton! 😍

[@rebeckajohanssonhugne8245]

Letade material till att visa elever kring folkmusik och så fann jag dig! Härligt med lite Arvikafôlk att inspirera med!

[@siggesaltens2663]

tak for det, Mia . Spec Carica Polska tog mej om Hjærtat,

[@mimm4332]

wow im in love

[@Mita49]

En gammal "surkärring" som åkt på spelmansstämmor sedan 1973 tycker att det här låter underbart!

[@MrVidarTh]

Oh it is beautiful! from norway

[@JustFiddler]

bagus sekali ! greeting from bali island ! Matur suksma

[@asimbakii2547]

Bravo, Det er så flot og smukt.

[@sofiebirn-hansen7805]

❤❤❤

[@AliZum1]

Beautiful xxx

[@malcolmmyatt9092]

Beautiful sound. Could you tell me if your violin is in standard tuning and what is the fifth string? Lovely music. Tuned C G D A E ?

[@MiaMarine]

Thank you, Malcolm! I have different tunings depending on the repertoire. The one you wrote is how I usually have it tuned - CGDAE. In this clip though, I've tuned in a way that in Swedish traditional music would be called " A bass" if the violin would have had four strings. Since it has five, I guess I should call it "D bass". The tuning is DADAE from the lowest string. A lot of the music from my home region, Värmland, has been played with a lot of open strings singing along. Some people even had flatter bridges to make it easier to play two strings at the same time. There are other "traditional" tunings as well. "F bass" or "gorrlaus" (FDAE), "troll tuning" (AEAC#) and others. It's fun to try them sometimes, because it makes the instrument sound really different. I have three five strings now... so that I can use different tunings in concerts. :-) It takes too long for the strings to settle, for it to work otherwise.

[@malcolmmyatt9092]

@@MiaMarine Thank you so much, Its absolutely fascinating and beautiful to listen to. I'm off to try one of these alternate tunings, wish me luck and thank you for your reply.

[@PsychedelicChameleon]

Is this really a violin with a 5th lower pitched string, or it maybe a tiny viola with a 5th higher pitched string? Also, this is a fantastic and supremely enjoyable interpretation of Hökpers vals. Another also, I like your composition Carica polska!

[@MiaMarine]

Thank you so much! This is definitely a violin, but there are also violas with a fifth string on top. For this recording I have tuned it up to (from the bottom) DADAE.

[@gyrocompa]

Very nice double strings !

[@MrFair]

Lovely playing! One question, if I may ask: Why did you get an exact copy of your old one, if you're playing a different tuning on it (which one are you using, by the way)? Wouldn't it have been better to get a new model especially made for the other tuning?

[@MiaMarine]

MrFair Thank you! Yes, of course you may! :-) I'm using the DADAE tuned one for this piece. The other one is tuned in CGDAE. My older five string is really perfect for both tunings, but to change the tuning of two strings in the middle of a concert hasn't been easy, because it takes quite a while for it to settle in the new tuning. Much longer than when I had a four string violin and only had to change tuning of the G string to an A. Since it is such a great instrument (I've never tried one that I've liked better, and I try a lot of violins...), I simply wanted one that was equally good.

[@MrFair]

musikermia Thank you for your elaborate answer, Mia! CG and DA are not that far apart, so I can see how both tunings can sound good on the same instrument :) And wanting to get an equally good instrument is, of course, more than understandable ;) Not wanting to retune all the time is also something I can relate to... I once experimented a bit with alternative/open guitar tunings and changed the tuning multiple times per session... it certainly is annoying and knowing that your strings could break every minute because of the added wear and tear is also quite uncomfortable. I almost never broke a string before, but I broke countless strings during that time...

[@brookslouise2877]

superb :)

[@siggesaltens2663]

öfverjordisk skönt

[@stellanpetersson7828]

Glädje!

[@arneherstad2198]

The first tune is Swedish. The second sounds Norwegian. To my ears, anyway.

[@MiaMarine]

You are probably right. Lars Hökpers (who composed the first tune) is from Dalarna, Sweden. The second tune is made by me, but I am born on the Swedish side of the border, very close to Norway. Culture and dialect are very similar on both sides of the border. (Music dialect as well as spoken language.)

[@arneherstad2198]

​@@MiaMarine I think Norway lost some land area during a diplomatic land swap 400 years ago: Jämtland/Herjedal and your own district. I've heard that Jämska is a hybrid dialect, like what you spoke of. I think some music fits into one's genetic memory. Both my parents are West Norwegian stock, but the first time I heard music from Dalarna I fell off my horse. The accounting came later when I learned of a Swedish ancestor from the 1600's, a clergyman who came to hide among the tribes of Sogn og Fjordane. I suspect he was from Skåne, but I can't be sure.