Ok, December 5th I got the deal, so I'm teaching fiddle as much as possible to get it paid.
It's made by Knut K. Steinkjøndalen in 1952, the first hardingerfiddle I own!
27 000 NKR (Norwegian kroners) = USD 4060 or GBP 2295.
Here's the whole hardingerfiddle. The picture can explain better than me, but it's tradition to make them like that. The really difference between regular fiddle and hardingerfiddle (exept the paintings) is that under the usually strings there are 4 (and sometimes 5) resonance strings, which starts vibrating when playing on the normal strings. They're hard to tune, and they have to be complete tuned, if they aren't tuned good enough the top strings won't sound good, especially the third understring is important to tune perfectly. If not, the lightest top string will sound very sharp and not nice to listen to. You can see that there is 8 tuning uhm bolts, four to the top strings, and four to the resonance strings.
Most hardingerfiddles has a dragon on the top, I've seen some with an angel and one with a pig head but this one has a dragon. I put two pictures of the dragon since that's what people look most at.
So, what ye think? Am I complete crazy?
Gard