The Lur (Näverlur / Neverlur)
General Information:
Norwegian Culture:
Sissel Morken Gullord
- A Frozen magical journey from the Norwegian mountains
Sissel presents and plays the lur from time: 0:50–3:25
Prof. Joan Haaland Paddock
- The Lur that Saved Norway (YouTube, 4 min.)
- The Lur of Prillar Guri: Linfield Faculty Lecture Series (1 hr, 6 min)
Acquisition of a Lur: November 23, 2024 from a Swedish Interiors/Antique collector
Trying out the lur at a friend's apartment
Playing it outside for the residents :)
Birch bark around the spruce interior is beautifully intact.
Two longitudinal halves were glued together before birch bark was wrapped around.
Maker information Inside the bell:
- L O (?) (Maker's initials?)
- 1980 (?) (Year made)
- Bjursås (town in Sweden)
Location on Google Maps
Length: 132.5 cm
Tuning: B-flat (European: B)
Original Mouthpiece end: Very rough
Reconstructed Mouthpiece
Digital Museum images of lurs similar to this one:
- A lur from Bjursås: Dalarna Museum, Falun, Sweden
- Address: Stigaregatan 2-4, 791 60 Falun, Sweden / Google Maps
- A lur from Alunda, Sweden made by Rune Selén in 2004: Upplandsmuseet, Uppsala, Sweden
- Address: S:t Eriks torg 10, 753 10 Uppsala, Sweden / Google Maps
- Length of lur: 134.0 cm
- Tuning: B-flat (European: B)
- Very much like the one I have with a similar colored cord
- Rune Selén is mentioned:
- Wikipedia: Birch trumpet (see under Contemporary manufacturers, Sweden)
- (Swedish) Wikipedia: Rune Selén (right click, "Translate to English")
- See the "Näverlur of the Year" award, since 2005 by the Rune Seléns Kulturfond
Note these two winners:- 2020: Sissel Morken Gullord
- 2021: Jennie Tiderman-Österberg
- A lur, shorter than mine, with a wider bell: Upplandsmuseet, Uppsala, Sweden
- Address: S:t Eriks torg 10, 753 10 Uppsala, Sweden / Google Maps
- Length of lur: 72.0 cm
- Probably used in the early 1900s
First attempts playing the lur:
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Amie & Ryan
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