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A kantele (Finnish:) [1] or kannel (Finnish:) is a traditional Finnish and Karelian plucked string instrument (chordophone) belonging to the south east Baltic box zither family known as the Baltic psaltery along with the Estonian kannel, the Latvian kokles, the Lithuanian kanklės, and the Russian gusli.
Kanteletar is a collection of Finnish folk poetry compiled by 19th-century Finnish linguist Elias Lönnrot. It is considered to be a sister collection to the Finnish national epic Kalevala. The poems of Kanteletar are based on the trochaic tetrameter, generally referred to as "Kalevala metre".
The internationally most known instrument of the family is Finnish kantele, so its name is sometimes used in English to also refer to other Baltic psalteries as well. Many of the Baltic psalteries hold a strong symbolic significance in their respective countries, including Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Russia, where playing ...
Koistinen Kantele OY is a manufacturer of kanteles, traditional plucked string instruments of the dulcimer and zither family native to Finland. Located in Rääkkylä , North Karelia , Finland, its current CEO is Hannu Koistinen, and it is a family business .
Robert Wilhelm Ekman - Kreeta Haapasalo Playing the Kantele in a Peasant Cottage. Kreeta Haapasalo, or Kantele-Kreeta (13 November 1813 – 29 March 1893 [1]), was a Finnish kantele-player, singer and folk musician.
Kreeta Haapasalo was a well-known folk musician who in periods of famine in the 1860s fed a family by traveling as a kantele player, singing poetry. It brought her great popularity at a time of great interest in the roots of the Finnish people.
Traditional Finnish instruments include the kantele, which is a chordophone, and was used in the 'Kalevala' by the hero Väinämöinen. More primitive instruments like the jouhikko (a bowed lyre) and the säkkipilli (Finnish bagpipe) had fallen into disuse, but are now finding new popularity in a folk revival. [1]
Ulla Kyllikki Katajavuori-Koskimies (16 June 1909 in Rauma — 5 October 2001 in Helsinki) was a Finnish musician who played the traditional Finnish kantele, performing from the 1930s to the 1990s. [1] One of her recordings is the Karelian folk song Konevitsan kirkonkellot.