Helland Brothers was a fiddle makers' shop in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin

Wisconsin

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, USA, 1905 - 1927.

The workshop was founded in 1905 by the brothers Knut Gunnarson Helland and Gunnar Gunnarsson Helland

Gunnar Gunnarsson Helland

Gunnar Gunnarsson Helland was a Norwegian-American Hardanger fiddle maker.-Background:Gunnar Gunnarsson Helland was a member of the Helland fiddle maker family of Telemark, Norway...

 from Bø

Bø

Bø may refer to the following locations in Norway:*Bø, Nordland, a municipality in Nordland*Bø, Telemark, a municipality in Telemark*Bø, Hordaland, a former municipality in Hordaland*Bø, Andøy in Andøy municipality, Nordland...

 in Telemark

Telemark

is a county in Norway, bordering Vestfold, Buskerud, Hordaland, Rogaland and Aust-Agder. The county administration is in Skien. Until 1919 the county was known as Bratsberg amt.-Location:...

. They emigrated to America

United States

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 in 1901 and made both Hardanger fiddles and violins. Knut died, supposedly of typhoid fever

Typhoid fever

Typhoid fever, also known as Typhoid, is a common worldwide bacterial disease, transmitted by the ingestion of food or water contaminated with the feces of an infected person, which contain the bacterium Salmonella enterica, serovar Typhi...

in 1920. Gunnar Gunnarson Helland ran the workshop alone until 1927, when it was closed due to the failure of the fiddle market.