Misc. psalmodikon links, northern Illinois and Sweden - and miscellaneous links

YouTube has this:

Psalmodikon Étude no 1
Composed by Vidar Lundbaeck 2007/08. Here played by the psalmodikon group "Psalmodikonisterna" in Hallaryd, Smalandia, Sweden. The étude is played in 3-part, treble, melody and bass.

Link here to hear it. Interesting comments and links to other pieces on YouTube.

Including this ... a group called Nordiska Psalmodikonförbundet playing what sounds like an old chorale in four-part harmony in Limmared, Västra Götaland, in 2008.

Lars-Paul Esbjörn, who founded First Lutheran Church in Galesburg and later the Augustana Synod, and Tuve N. Hasselquist, a Swedish pastor who was recruited by Esbjorn to come to Galesburg and became a pastor, editor and president of Augustana College, both played the psalmodikon, and Hasselquist published a psalmbook in sifferskrift.

Lars-Paul Esbjörn. The Augustana Heritage Association has a website, with books and CDs, including a couple on music and liturgy, available for purchase. LC-MS
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. John E. Norton - paper titled “Ecclesia Plantanda: Emigrant Preacher Lars-Paul Esbjörn and The Beginnings of the
Augustana Synod." PDF file in Children of Augustana: Presentations from the AHA Gathering at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas - June 19-22, 2008."

Migranternas Hus in Alfta, Sweden, has a Swedish-language biography of Pastor Lars Paul Esbjorn, With a photo of a psalmodikon on page 4. It appears he used it to promote psalm singing at a church in Sweden before he came to the U.S. in the 1840s. Migranternas Hus is in the part of Sweden many Henry County Swedes came from. Sweden. Blurb on their English-language page:

The House of Migrants is a center for emigration and genealogy research. The center is located in the province of Gävleborg. The work consists of building a database of the county's emigrants and immigrants and collecting local historical resource material. In this way, the history of our area comes alive.

Experience history in Alfta
At the House of Migrants in Alfta, a museum is constructed to showcase the emigration from this area and the religious cult "Ersk-Jansarna." We welcome visitors both in groups and individually and can offer guided tours and information about emigration in general. We also offer lectures about emigration, genealogical research and about how local history can be used in teaching.