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The Nyckelharpa Strikes Back

on BBC Four

The colourful story of a Swedish string instrument. The nyckelharpa looks like a fiddle but is hung across the body like a guitar and played with a mechanism of wooden keys. This film, from the European Roots strand, looks at the nyckelharpa's medieval origins, and the controversial campaign to make it the Swedish national instrument despite an association with neo-Nazism.

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