Moraharpa
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thumb|300px|Moraharpa dated 1526 in the Zorn Collections, [[Mora Municipality, Sweden]] right|thumb|205px|Schlüsselfiedel (lower right corner)
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thumb|300px|Moraharpa dated 1526 in the Zorn Collections, [[Mora Municipality, Sweden]] right|thumb|205px|Schlüsselfiedel (lower right corner)
The moraharpa is a modern name for an early predecessor of the nyckelharpa keyed fiddle; the primary example instrument dated 1526, was found in Mora, Sweden. A number of modern reproductions of the original moraharpa have been made since the 1980s, and the name moraharpa, in addition to referring to a single, specific instrument, has come to mean a type of nyckelharpa similar in design to the original moraharpa.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Moraharpa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.