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a Swedish fiddle that grew a keyboard and never told its violin cousins.
key-fiddleName literally means key-harp in Swedish
medieval rootsPictured on a church carving from the 1300s
sympathetic stringsExtra strings hum without being touched
keyed not frettedWooden keys press tangents against the strings
national prideFeatured on Sweden's old fifty-kronor banknote