{"id":2736,"date":"2025-08-02T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radiofolk.dk\/captivate-podcast\/guld-hans-jrgen-christensen-spillemand-fra-kalundborg-del-1\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T11:58:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T10:58:49","slug":"guld-hans-jrgen-christensen-spillemand-fra-kalundborg-del-1","status":"publish","type":"captivate_podcast","link":"https:\/\/radiofolk.dk\/en\/captivate-podcast\/guld-hans-jrgen-christensen-spillemand-fra-kalundborg-del-1\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00d8-Gold: Hans J\u00f8rgen Christensen \u2013 Fiddler from Kalundborg, part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfm-player-iframe\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px; margin-bottom: 20px; border-radius: 6px; overflow:hidden;\"><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/player.captivate.fm\/episode\/ae5b2b53-ce17-49e7-90a2-0f70cf0907d9\"><\/iframe><\/div><p><em>Hans Jorgen<\/em> talks in these two podcasts (of which this is the first part) about his life as a fiddler. He is much more than a fiddler, but we didn&#039;t have room for that in the podcast, so here is a summary of everything else:<\/p>\n<p>In addition to being a dazzling musician, he is also a very skilled craftsman. He was trained as a corpus silversmith from <em>Georg Jensen<\/em> and won a silver medal for his journeyman piece, despite being away a lot playing. He then continued at the school of arts and crafts as a goldsmith, but dropped out and started at <em>violin maker Merling<\/em> instead. There he learned in particular how to make bows for string instruments and then had his own company for a number of years building and repairing bows. As the first instrument builder in Denmark, he won the Danish Craftsmanship Award in the late 80s for a silver-mounted cello bow made of snakewood. However, he closed the company down in the mid 90s, because after the fall of the wall, a lot of instrument builders came from the east, who sold what he could for half the price. Then he became a radio operator and after that he was on <em>Vision Center Refn\u00e6s<\/em>, a school for the blind and visually impaired where he had a recording studio. He was there for 14 years until he retired.<\/p>\n<p>This podcast is produced and organized by violinist and visual artist <em>Maja Linde Christensen<\/em> before <em>Media Garden<\/em>, and it is part of the series <em>\u00d8-Gold \u2013 Folk music in Denmark<\/em> which is supported by <em>The Islands Art Foundation<\/em>. Thank you for that!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfm-player-iframe\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px; margin-bottom: 20px; border-radius: 6px; overflow:hidden;\"><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/player.captivate.fm\/episode\/ae5b2b53-ce17-49e7-90a2-0f70cf0907d9\"><\/iframe><\/div><p>In these two podcasts (of which this is the first part) Hans J\u00f8rgen talks about his life as a fiddler. He is much more than a fiddler, but we didn&#039;t have room for that in the podcast, so here is a summary of everything else: In addition to being a dazzling musician, he is also a very skilled craftsman. He was trained as a corpus silversmith from \u2026 <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/radiofolk.dk\/en\/captivate-podcast\/guld-hans-jrgen-christensen-spillemand-fra-kalundborg-del-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"captivate_category":[],"captivate_tag":[],"class_list":["post-2736","captivate_podcast","type-captivate_podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofolk.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/captivate_podcast\/2736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofolk.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/captivate_podcast"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofolk.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/captivate_podcast"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofolk.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofolk.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofolk.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/captivate_podcast\/2736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2739,"href":"https:\/\/radiofolk.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/captivate_podcast\/2736\/revisions\/2739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofolk.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"captivate_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofolk.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/captivate_category?post=2736"},{"taxonomy":"captivate_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofolk.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/captivate_tag?post=2736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}