For the Japanese TV station with the nickname "Kantele", see Kansai Telecasting Corporation.
Two five string kanteles by Melodia Soitin (2014). Shape of the upper kantele is more traditional, while the one for kantele below is slightly modernised
A kantele (Finnish:[ˈkɑntele])[1] or kannel (Finnish:[ˈkɑnːel]) 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 Estonian kannel, Latvian kokles, Lithuanian kanklės and Russian gusli.[2]
5-string kantele
Sounds samples from a home-made 5-string kantele
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^Ling, Jan (1997). A history of European folk music. University Rochester Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-878822-77-2. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
^Djupsjöbacka, Tove (May 24, 2016). "The kantele – not exclusively Finnish". Finnish Music Quarterly. Retrieved May 24, 2017.
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