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	Kantele
		Kantele is not simply the musical instrument, it is the symbol uniting in such concepts, as culture, labour activity, and historical development of many generations of northern people.
		The chest of the kantele was made of alder, the pegs were made of birch, the strings were made of the horsehair.
		In the beginning of the 30th years of the XX century under the direction of V.P.Gudkov, the employee of folklore section of the scientific research institute, the masters Kluhin and Yamschikov have made kantele with chromatic pitch, and in 1936 the State ensemble of the KASSR "Kantele" was created under the leadership of V.P.Gudkov.
	www.kalevala.ru /kantele_e.shtml (329 words)

	Merja Soria: Kantele Stories
		In 1991 I began teaching kantele in the Finnish community of San Diego and in 1992 at San Diego State University (SDSU).
		For non-music majors kantele is usually the first musical instrument they ever played, so they come to the first class a little anxious, afraid they are not talented enough, clever enough, fast enough....
		When people come together to play kantele, they remove their adult masks, because for that special moment, it is only music that matters.
	members.cox.net /msoria/kantele.html (744 words)

	Kantele
		A kantele is a traditional Finnish plucked string instrument.
		The oldest forms of kantele have 5 to 15 strings and a wooden carved body.
		There are two main techniques to play, either plucking the strings with their fingers or strumming unstopped strings (sometimes with a matchstick).
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/k/ka/kantele.html (264 words)

	Finnish Music Information Centre
		The kanteles of these two eras differ considerably from one another in their construction, the way they are played, and the type of music performed on them.
		The supremacy of the kantele in Finnish folk music was to some extent undermined by the fiddle from the 18th century onwards and by the one- and two-row accordion during the century that followed.
		The kantele did not, however, disappear, but whereas it had formerly been used to accompany dancing, it now tended to be played more in the home and as a form of entertainment.The 20th century has seen some extremely varied performing techniques on the big box kanteles with 20 strings or more.
	www.fimic.fi /fimic/fimic.nsf/e15480f14903c1f9422567670073c2ab/26f94cfa96805061c225684f003d5457!OpenDocument (3046 words)

	The Kantele – Finland's national instrument
		It was thus, through the Kalevala, that the kantele became, in the 19th century, the Finns' national instrument.
		The kantele is the oldest Finnish folk instrument, and is classed as a cordophone, that is, an instrument whose sound arises from a string stretched between two fixed points.
		In the 1920s a 36-string chromatic kantele was developed, furnished with a mechanism that made it possible to change key easily.
	www.stolaf.edu /lillyprogram/faculty/russia/the_kantele_finland.html (676 words)

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		Kantele is a traditional folk music instrument of Finnic people inhabiting Finland, North West region of Russia and some of the Baltic states.
		Kantele is one of the central objects of Kalevala runes (Finnish and Karelian epic tales).
		Traditional Kantele were very much in use up to the end of the first half of 20th century.
	www.chez.com /wmt/instr/kantele (383 words)

	Home Page
		The kantele is a traditional Finnish lap-harp with a 2000-year history rooted in the folklore of the "Kalevala," the national epic of Finland.
		Kantele Laulu, Inc. sponsors a variety of activities and events in the Northeastern United States.
		It aims to ensure that Finnish Americans' rich musical heritage is preserved and maintained and that the kantele remains a vital part of that heritage.
	www.kantelelaulu.com (199 words)

	Kantele music of Hannu Sopanen: English summary
		Kantele or kannel is the national instrument of Finland.
		Kantele does not have special strings corresponding to the fl keys of the piano.
		Most of the kantele pieces presented here are originally teaching material, so that they are technically relatively simple.
	www.kolumbus.fi /justal/kantele/summary.htm (498 words)

	II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The history of the kantele is directly tied to that of other psalteries played by peoples living around the eastern half of the Baltic Sea, which have been collectively called the "Baltic psalteries." The various names of the instruments are etymologically related (see Eero Nieminen, 1963; Leisiö 1978:363).
		In a book on carved kantele playing, co-authored with Martti Pokela, he cautiously states the standard belief that the kantele is two thousand years old (1971:7), but in a more recent work he estimates its age at a thousand years (1985:97).
		Leisiö believes that the kantele was not adopted in Finland until the Karelians and Savos brought it there, which was not until perhaps the middle ages.
	www.people.iup.edu /rahkonen/kantele/diss/history.htm (1534 words)

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		The kantele is a traditional stringed instrument of the Finnish-Baltic region and the national instrument of Finland.
		The aim of the Kantele Project of 2001-2003 is to develop all aspects of the kantele know-how of North Karelia, to commodify it and make it known, and to incorporate the kantele in the economic structure of the province.
		The Kantele Project is financed by the European Social Fund, the Administrative Board of Eastern Finland, the City of Joensuu and the Municipalities of Ilomantsi and Rääkkylä.
	www.jns.fi /kulttuuri/kantele/files/eng.html (1024 words)

	TKK Akustiikka / TKK Acoustics Laboratory / Research / Analysis and synthesis of musical sounds / Kantele
		The kantele is a traditional Finnish plucked string instrument with five metal strings in its basic form.
		Nonlinear kantele strings are modeled using a waveguide string with spatially distributed fractional delay filters.
		Two peculiar features of the kantele tones, i.e., the beating and nonlinear behavior of the harmonics, have been described by analysis, measurements, and synthesis.
	www.acoustics.hut.fi /research/asp/kantele (549 words)

	MumaHarps.com - Kanteles
		It is recorded in the great Finnish folk epic, The Kalevala that Vainamoinen made the first Kantele from the jaws of a large pike.
		This Kantele was a magical instrument which produced a music that calmed the soul of man and tamed the savage beasts.
		The Kantele may also be tuned to the Diatonic scale (cdefgabcde) and its range can be extended to 20 notes through the use of harmonics.
	www.mumaharps.com /catalogue/kanteles.html (221 words)

	The Kantele — Finland's national instrument — Virtual Finland
		The kantele player held the instrument in his lap or on a table, with the shorter side toward him.There were various methods of fingering.
		Common to them all was that the shortest string was played with the thumb of the right hand, and that the forefinger of the left hand was used for the next shortest string.The fingers were interspersed, so that each string was played with a particular finger.
		The instrument was turned so that the longest strings were closest to the player; the melody was always played by the right hand, and the accompanying chords by the left.
	virtual.finland.fi /netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=27002 (714 words)

	Ancient Instruments Kantele Page
		The Finnish Kantele and its relatives (Estonian Kannel, Latvian Kankle) are ancient members of the zither family.
		The Kantele was believed to have magical properties, and it was played for the ill, for its healing powers.
		Before nightfall a Kantele would be carried around the outside of the house, or held up before each door and window, since its very presence was a powerful force against evil.
	www.ancientmusic.co.uk /ancientinstruments/page3.html (418 words)

	Kreeta Haapasalo, Kantele-Kreeta
		Kreeta's musical training began at six years of age with a 6-stringed kantele under the guidance of her uncle Juho Vanhatalo (Gammalgård), who played both violin and a "large, fl kantele".
		Kantele Kreeta's songs, which she always sang, accompanied her for 40 years in the homes, in schools, at large and small festivals, at concerts, at agricultural shows, at restaurants and at markets.
		She married at Leppävirta and Kreeta and Joonas with the children Matti and Matilda moved to a rented house in Varkaus.
	sydaby.eget.net /swe/jp_kantele.htm (1162 words)

	FINFO: Timo Väänänen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Timo Väänänen, born in 1970, is a virtuoso of the kantele, Finland's national musical instrument, known to some experts as the Finnish psaltery.
		It, in turn, prompted the development of a 21-string electric kantele, which is solid like a rock guitar.
		In 1995 he won first prize in the Kantele Society's national competition for soloists and in 1997 he was voted best young artist of the year by the Finland Festivals organisation.
	dwb.unl.edu /Teacher/NSF/C04/C04Links/virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/vaananen.html (316 words)

	Neothemi Finland - Kantele
		They are also encouraged to teach children to play kantele and in many day care centres kantele playing is very alive and the kantele is often used together with Orff-instruments.
		The goal of song making and kantele playing is that we would like to see music, singing, kantele playing and song making as a natural part of kindergartens learning environment and daily life.
		Children from 5 to 6-years are playing both 5-string kantele and recorders together with Orff-instruments in their pre school years.
	www.edu.helsinki.fi /tt/neothemi/suomi/kantele.html (1022 words)

	Kalifornia Kanteles Finnish Music Group
		Kalifornia Kanteles began in April 1996 when a group of enthusiastic adult students met at the residence of Bitte Westerlund and Jorn Donner, then Consul General of Finland to begin to learn to play the Kantele from the renowned Merja Soria.
		The Kantele: Although its roots lie far away in Asia, the kantele has been elevated to the status of Finland's national musical instrument.
		Kantele: Kantele is a traditional folk music instrument of Finnic people inhabiting Finland, North West region of Russia and some of the Baltic states.
	kanteles.org (782 words)

	The Daily News Online
		A fifth generation kantele player, Willie was born in Naselle, the son of Finnish immigrants.
		She became widely known as "Kantele Kreeta," he said, and once played for the family of Czar Nicholas II of Russia.
		Willie had watched his father play the kantele all his life, but he didn't pick up the instrument until he was 50 years old, more than a decade after Wilho, Sr.
	www.tdn.com /articles/2006/10/17/this_day/news05.txt (1736 words)

	2006 NEA National Heritage Fellowships: Interview with Wilho Saari
		There are a few from different parts of the country, but I'm the one who picked up the ball here in the Northwest, starting about 25 years back, and it has been spreading around the Northwest through various workshops.
		Most five- and ten-string kanteles are strummed as accompaniment for a song.
		But more recently in Finland they've begun making electric kanteles and the musicians are playing a mixture of plucking and strumming.
	www.nea.gov /honors/heritage/Heritage06/Saari2.html (1068 words)

	A la découverte du Kantele
		Le kantele traditionnel se compose d'une caisse de résonance sans fond, de forme triangulaire, creusée à l'origine dans un seul bloc de bois, tendu de 5 cordes d'abord en crin de cheval, ensuite de fil de cuivre ou de métal.
		Si le kantele est devenu l'instrument mythique de Finlande, c'est parce s'y rattache la grande épopée lyrique "Kalevala".
		Tous quatre jouent du kantele à 5, 16 ou 36 cordes, s'y ajoutent parfois un violon et le chant.
	users.skynet.be /canard.folk/Dossiers/Kantele.htm (485 words)

	So-net blog:Carefree monology:Kantele (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		I went to a Kantele lesson for the first time today.
		The smallest Kantele have 5 strings, and I played it today.
		It is anything but loud, but I think it has solid intention and the sound touch a string in someone’s heart.
	blog.so-net.ne.jp /shiba_koira/2006-10-14-2 (90 words)

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		The sound of this kantele was so beautiful that all creatures were coming to listen while Väinämöinen was playing.
		At the beginning no humans were able to play this instrument, but once an old blind man took this kantele and begun to play.
		The earliest known kantele are from Karjala and dated by 18th century.
	www.chez.com /wmt/instr/kantele/hist.html (389 words)

	Early (and other) Instruments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The kantele is a Finnish folk harp similar to a zither.
		The kantele, which is the national instrument of Finland, belongs to a musical tradition that goes back thousands of years and is still in use by Rune singers in parts of Finland, such as Karjala, Vadja, and Isora.
		The kantele was typically used as accompaniment for poetry and song, especially for the great Finnish epic Kalevala, and it is this oral tradition that has been in Finland for uncounted centuries.
	www.radix.net /~dglenn/defs/inst.html (5560 words)

	Louder Kantele Project - TKK Acoustics Laboratory / Research
		In the louder kantele project, the TKK Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing is co-operating with the instrument builder Jyrki Pölkki from Soitinrakentajat Amf.
		Our goal is to develop a louder kantele and research the posibilities to use the same ideas to other string instruments.
		The timbre changes during both sequences are due to changing of the plucking/strumming point.
	www.acoustics.hut.fi /research/louderkantele (217 words)

	Koistinen Kantele
		The sweeping development of the kantele, and the total rethink of the kantele concept in the Wing and Electric models, particularly, have begun an entirely new chapter in the history of the music composed for the instrument.
		The new kantele sounds magnificent wherever it is played: in traditional folk music, new classical, jazz, pop and rock.
		The new kantele music is the work of Finland’s leading kantelists and composers.
	www.koistinenkantele.fi /eng/kantelemusiikki/index.php (164 words)

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