A Norwegian bagpipe? Not really. Even if there are bagpipe traditions in most European countries, there never was one in Norway. But since the Swedish bagpipe revival in the 1980s, there have also been attempts to play Norwegian music on pipes - this album is one example of this. In April 2022, I received an email from Mike Adcock reminding me that he had done some recordings with me in the mid-90s, with bagpipes and sjøfløyte. This caused me to dig into recordings I made at the time, but had long since forgotten. Among many strange things I found were several recordings of me playing Hardanger fiddle tunes and airs on the bagpipes. The instrument was built by Alban Faust; with a melody pipe with double reed, after a French model. Later I switched to another type, also made by Alban Faust; a model he has named the Nordic Uiellean Pipe. With this second model, I recorded an album in 2015, Den norske sekkepipa (“The Norwegian Bagpipe”), also wi...