Svend Bjerg was born in 1903. he lives in Fjand, where he is a farmer. He has played the fiddle since theage of 15 for both public dances and privare parties. Most of the melodies on this recording are ones Svend Bjerg has always known and played. Some (for example Svensk schottisch, Det skæve tårn i Pisa, Vals sekstur), he has learned mere recently from records and folkdance books." (From the original LP cover from 1978)