The näverlapp ("birch bark patch") is a very primitive Swedish folk instrument consisting of a thin piece of
birch bark
Birch bark or birchbark is the bark of several Eurasian and North American birch trees of the genus ''Betula''.
For all practical purposes, birch bark's main layers are the outer dense layer, white on the outside, and the inner porous layer ( ...
, two or three centimeters square. This piece, which has a rounded top, is placed between the lip and the lower teeth; when a thin stream of breath is blown over the piece of bark, it produces a clear, strong tone akin to a clarinet but with less range (about one and a half octaves). As the patch of birch becomes soaked with saliva, which it does after a few minutes, it begins to sound worse and worse.
Recordings
Jan Lundström plays the näverlapp in a few songs on ''Låtar från Hedemora och Säterbygden'' on the label Wisa WISC 724 (MC) Recording year: 1990
External links
* Course on playing the närverlapp in 2006 by Jan Lundström, Hedemor
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Birgit Kjellström
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Aerophones
Swedish musical instruments