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http://www.nrk.no/nett-tv/indeks/262961/

The site says Mac users get the best results by using Silverlining. That concurs with my own experience.

The link should lead precisely to the tuba section of the news broadcast, but it doesn’t stop on its own, so you have to cut the following samples of Norwegian folklore unless you are an addict.

Klaus

Thanks Klaus. Can you summarise what was said? Interesting to see and hear Roger's unusual tuba collection, but did not have a clue what it was all about

Despite the common roots Norwegian and Danish sound very different. I cannot understand much, but the main point is that the 3 old tubas are taken to the church for a recording of a modern piece written for these old instruments. The person coaching RF is the composer.

Klaus

imperialbari wrote:Despite the common roots Norwegian and Danish sound very different. I cannot understand much [...]

Apparently, the Norwegians have the same problem with Danish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-mOy8VUEBk" target="_blank

Other than the story about the new piece for three old tubas, most of it was about Roger's interest in old tubas and that when he's not playing with Norwegian wind ensembles, he travels around with a full minivan of tubas and gives lectures on the history of the tuba.

His collection is pretty impressive. Thanks for the link, Klaus!

finnbogi wrote:

imperialbari wrote:Despite the common roots Norwegian and Danish sound very different. I cannot understand much [...]

Apparently, the Norwegians have the same problem with Danish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-mOy8VUEBk" target="_blank" target="_blank

Other than the story about the new piece for three old tubas, most of it was about Roger's interest in old tubas and that when he's not playing with Norwegian wind ensembles, he travels around with a full minivan of tubas and gives lectures on the history of the tuba.

His collection is pretty impressive. Thanks for the link, Klaus!

As for the second video, it is Norwegian acting as Danes, which very few of them have been able to do since 1814. Of course the cream of Norwegian artists lives in the cultural capital of Norway, which still is Copenhagen.

One of the Norwegian actors actually looks like a grown up version of Emil från Lönneberg, who happens to be a Swede.

OK, I am on a friendly foot with quite a few Norwegian tubists. The original video link came from Jan Viggo, who I quess is a member of TN also. He teaches brass in Alta, which is way north of the Arctic circle.

Another Norwegian tuba friend, Sondre, is wise enough to live and work as a dentist here in Denmark. In the context of this video he asked me about my tuba collection, to which I only could say: Not even remotely close to the one of Roger Fjeldet.

And, no I don’t find Norwegians funny. They have too little sense of fun.

Klaus

Well Klaus - Sense of fun or not - I don`t think of me as espesially seriously - I DO in fact play these instruments
Feel free to visit some time - I live in Halden just across the Swedish border.
Just turn left on E6 through Sweden and you`ll end up in Halden before you even know it.
Just remember to bring beer - the prices in Norway is skyhigh
Perhaps that is the reason of the lack of humor

Roger

We tease the other Nordic peole quite a bit, but then if a Dane has a stone in his shoe, iit is likely to be Norwegian. If you fly over Norway you will note the worn mountains with their mostly rounded tops. The ice age took the Norwegian mountaintops to Denmark.

If a Dane meets Swede he can understand, it is a Norwegian.

The Norwegian students used to celebrate their exams in Copenhagen. Pure terror, which was stopped by the ferry company after too much damage to their ships.

Before the bridge to Sweden a common graffiti in Copenhagen said: Keep your town clean - see a Swede to the ferry.

Traveling between the Nordic countries is easy, paperwise. And there is a large exchange of populations. Only Denmark stays the major magnet for the other countries. Goes for food, education, and entertainment.

Norway has a panhandle on the east side of the Oslo fiord, which appears like a stronghold for wind music. Not alone Roger Fjeldet lives in its southern tip, but when I was in the Nordic Champion brass band in 1975, the two Norwegian contestants in the concert band division were from that panhandle: Sarpsborg & Fredrikstad.

I would like to travel to Norway and a lot of other places, but streets are safer without drivers with less than perfect eyesight.

Klaus

imperialbari wrote:...http://www.nrk.no/nett-tv/indeks/262961/

Thanks Klaus, very nice link with much interesting stuff. Great that it is so 'easy' to understand our neighbours languages