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

Timbre 2026, Montreal

June 26, 2026

News

The 4th International Conference on Timbre, 2–4 July 2026 in Montréal, Canada, is hosted by the Faculty of music, University of Montreal. Arja Kastinen will participate the conference with her presentation “The Intimate Timbres of the Kantele: Materiality, Touch and Cultural Memory”, and by performing at the conference concert. Research articles about the acoustics of […]

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Sound Stories 17th–19th June 2026

May 09, 2026

News

Northumbria University, in collaboration with the Galpin Society and the UKRI Global Music Technologies research group, will host the Sound Stories Conference on 17–19 June 2026 in Newcastle Upon Tyne, England. The conference aims to examine potential gaps in organology and to highlight forgotten or emerging analytical approaches. Its goal is to bring together diverse […]

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