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

The Teppana Jänis album is released on vinyl in London

August 12, 2025

News

The Teppana Jänis album has been released on vinyl by the record label Death Is Not The End. The album was originally released in 2021 by Ääniä Records and Temps Oy. It was the first in a series of publications of Kantele wax cylinder recordings that Arja Kastinen has studied and worked on. The album […]

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‘The human mind is a resonator’

July 14, 2025

Blog

My first exposure to the long aesthetic of small kantele improvisation was in the early 1980s. I attended Kaustinen Music High School for the final two years and volunteered several times at the Kaustinen Folk Music Festival during the decade, as well as participating in various courses at the Folk Music Institute. There was a […]

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