Karelian Kantele Tradition

About Karelian kantele players, their music and instruments in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

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The Polymorphic Kantele

About kantele replicas, string materials and tuning.

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Presentations

How to change and clean the strings, early education, videos etc.

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News & the blog

An experimental approach to the “inner power” improvisation in 19th-century Karelian kantele tradition

December 09, 2025

News

An experimental approach to the “inner power” improvisation in 19th-century Karelian kantele tradition is a new publication on the Research Catalogue. The publication  was developed as part of the research project, Kantele of the Runosong Culture and the Dialogue of Creativity, and is based on documetation of the old kantele tradition recorded in the Karelian […]

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SKVR & KANTELE -exposition

October 28, 2025

News

As part of the ‘Kantele of the Runosong Culture and the Dialogue of Creativity‘ research project, the SKVR & KANTELE website was published on the Research Catalogue platform on 28 October 2025. https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2223698/2223699 It contains 422 SKVR texts related to the mythical origins or music of the kantele, linked by region to the old kantele […]

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