#finland #history #mythology Have you ever played or have been around someone who has played the Kantele? I want to hear your experiences in the comments!
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@Tbah837 ай бұрын
My wife is a professional Kantele player, so I get to hear it a lot. And don't get me wrong, I'd like to hear her play more! 😉 She has couple of 5-stringers, a 15-string one and her main instrument, a 39-string concert kantele. The sound is truly magical, especially if played in a wood-frame house which will act as a resonator for the instrument.
@OldCanadianguy9534 ай бұрын
What stage name does your wife perform Kantele with? Has she any recordings?
@Gibbetoo7 ай бұрын
Kantele is big part of my "hometown"/city. they made us play 5 string kantele in elementary school alongside with recorder. i know many who are able to play it in professional level.
@marsukarhu94776 ай бұрын
I don't know your hometown, but I went to school in Helsinki and everyone had to learn the basics of kantele there... but I doubt that any of us learned to play even close to professional level ;)
@OldCanadianguy9534 ай бұрын
I play Gusli and Kokle in Canada. I was once playing outdoors with musician friends and a tree was nearby. When it was my turn to play my 12 string Gusli - and all of the others witnessed this - the birds in the trees started to sing in time to my playing where they sang randomly previously. Quite an experience!
@netwitchtatjana46617 ай бұрын
No story to tell other than yours. Just that the kantele is my most favourite instrument in the world with its magical healing sound. (Neither Finnish nor Irish - I'm German)
@emil42907 ай бұрын
kalevala laulettuna youtube channel sings Kalevala poems, and they usually play the kantele in the background.
@IrishinFinland7 ай бұрын
Perfect! I'll check it out!
@sixthdynamic90783 ай бұрын
Ida Elina is amazing. Great choice of reference
@ordyhorizonrivieredunord7127 ай бұрын
Most exquisite representation of a very ancient musical instrument. Old archives called it a Psalterion, the Russians call it a Bandura. Germans call it a Zither, Irish call it a Harp, Antiquity called it a Cithar, and Even China has a name for it, the Ki. It can also be called a Dulcimer. There is no end to the beautiful tunes that can be played with the harmonics of the stings. 🎼
@ordyhorizonrivieredunord7124 ай бұрын
🎻No one knows when music started and no one knows when it will end.🎻
@teemuviinikainen54557 ай бұрын
I have made kantele couple years ago, when my sister found unfinised kantele secondhand market. I think its must be some studentwork left behind. I decide finish it, and im pretty proud of it 😊
@rahieitee7 ай бұрын
you continue doing good research, much appreciation
@aleksis-kivi7 ай бұрын
I turned a small student-size guitar into a 6 string harp to play kantele songs. It sounds kind of like something between a harp, guitar, and kantele all at once.
@IrishinFinland7 ай бұрын
Oh that sounds like an awesome hybrid!
@aleksis-kivi7 ай бұрын
@@IrishinFinland Thanks! I also experimented with different tones by comparing thinner steel and thicker bronze guitar strings. I imagine the medieval kantele strings were thicker and made of twisted horse hair like a jouhikko, with a rounder, darker tone and lower tuning. (But I might be wrong.)
@paullyle34613 ай бұрын
I've been playing Kantele for over 10 years built five kit or so. I pick with my fingers but lately I've been bowing it with a psaltery bow as I make the bows as well. Thanks for sharing their history.🌈🎶😎
@mustelidmama2 ай бұрын
I don't have a drop of Finnish blood. As a member of a world wide historical reenactment organization (Society for Creative Anachronism) I found a SCAdian lady who lives in Lahti, Finland and I decided to learn what I could about her country. I love music, so I soon discovered the kantele, which fit in nicely with the historical interest.. I have a 5-string and an 11 string.No regrets here!
@IrishinFinland2 ай бұрын
amazing!
@alaruno83257 ай бұрын
Interesting topic and I think you are making a very good work in spreading more information about the Finnic traditions and myths. However when you talk about the "Elks bone kantele" you show a picture of two wapiti deer (Cervus canadensis, a.k.a. elk in North America) fighting. You need to remember that in a European context an elk is what a North American would call a moose (Alces alces). In a Finnish/Finnic context an elk would thus equal a "hirvi" (i.e. Alces alces) and nothing else.
@ilkkak30657 ай бұрын
I don't know If it's true but I like to think Kantele is the ancestor of the guitar. It's possible since roots of The Finns and The quitar roots lead to the same regions. 7:40 It sounds like a description of the world's first rock concert...😅
@kalevala297 ай бұрын
No, it's not a precursor to the guitar. The guitar has its own separate origins In Spain. 16th century I think.
@aleksis-kivi7 ай бұрын
@@kalevala29 And before that, the guitar descended from the lute, which descended from the oud, an ancient Arabic and Middle Eastern instrument. Great point about the world's first rock concert!
@ordyhorizonrivieredunord7127 ай бұрын
@@kalevala29 Way before there were Luths and Guitars as stated in the psalms in the bible David played the flute and was accompanied by musicians who could play on the Guith from Gath. The first string musical instrument was the bow and it is still played today by indigenous people. Adding strings evolved into Lyres Harps and Fiddles. . 📯
@Aurinkohelmi6 ай бұрын
Learning to play was part of education at elementary school. Though I don't remember how to play anymore as that was decades ago 😊
@paulwhite21626 ай бұрын
You made me remember a Finnish word, the name of an animation I randomly found last year. Noitarumpu from joulopukki ja noitarumpu. Of course the name had to be changed for english speaking children, a witches drum is far too sinister and scary
@smitemus7 ай бұрын
I've only ever heard a Kantele being played once and that one had only two of its five strings left.
@ikyfromnorth7 ай бұрын
Kantele has its very wonderful sound, but it's cousin; jouhikantele (jouhikko) has its own rustic sound because of tail horsehair, and you play it like a violin. Thou it has little bit of differences.
@markopelaa7 ай бұрын
My mom still has 2 kanteles from my grandfather. One he build himself and other one is from his grandfather.
@IrishinFinland7 ай бұрын
That's amazing!
@katemorro482818 күн бұрын
I’m a Finnish-American (all4 grandparents were born there and immigrated in the late 1890s) and am just now trying to learn the kantele. It is the most magical and meditative instrument and a joy to play. I have a 10 string made in California and would very much like to find a teacher that can take me beyond Nuku Nuku. Does anyone know of a teacher in the US?
@wildautoharp23 күн бұрын
I appreciate your scholarship and folklore. Given that the message of all these tales was the magical sound of the thing, it would be nice if you could let us hear the thing instead of talking ALL the time. Take a beat. The Music might be impactful.
@0thepyat04 ай бұрын
Is there any relationship between the Welsh crwth and the Finnish jouhikko? Welsh nectar and Finnish sima? Modraniht and Helkafest?
@patrickwoolery600015 күн бұрын
Both are bowed lyres, but beyond that, they are very different. I play jouhikko, but if you handed me a crwth, I would be at square one. If you cut the yoke off the crwth, you’d have a fiddle. Cut the yoke off the jouhikko and you have firewood.
@windsongshf7 ай бұрын
Where do I get one? :)
@Tbah837 ай бұрын
Koistinen Kantele is the largest (and best) manufacturer.
@PohjanKarhu7 ай бұрын
Some makers and sellers: - The Kantele Shop (Gerry Henkel), Minnesota, USA. - Koistinen (Finland) - Lovikka (Finland) - Melodia Soitin (Finland) - Baltic Psalteries (Russia) - Savita Music (Czechia) - Michael J. King (UK) - Ancient Music (UK) - Kandlekoda (Estonia) - Tmi J-A Kallioinen (Finland) - Soitinverstas Jyrki Pölkki (Finland)
@PohjanKarhu7 ай бұрын
I got my first one from Melodia Soitin. It's pretty good. They aren't of the absolute highest quality, but still very good.
@windsongshf7 ай бұрын
@@PohjanKarhu Thanks for the info! I used to play guitar back in the day. I'm finding a few KZfaq videos on how to play them. :) I'm from Finnish ancestry. Great grand parents immigrated to the U.S. about a hundred years ago. My mom and dad were born in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Lots of Finns around the Great Lakes.
@valerieblessley45224 ай бұрын
You can get a wonderful kantele of all sizes from Lovikka kanteles in Finland. Blessley Instruments, in the USA (Washington State) also makes small kanteles.
@MilenaAnnina7 ай бұрын
I belong to "pelimanni" family. I have so many stories to tell. I'll send you email.😊
@IrishinFinland7 ай бұрын
Please do! irishinfinland@gmail.com
@rahieitee7 ай бұрын
upvote, love the term and would like hear more
@DR_REDACTED7 ай бұрын
Its funny how i as a Finn learn more of my own coutrys folklore/myths from you than i have learned in all of my life tho of course i know Kalevala and others very well too. I still know other courtrys myths much better than my own🫣