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

Night of the Arts 15.8.2024: Arja Kastinen’s two hour improvisation

August 10, 2024

News

Helsinki Night of the Arts, 15 August 2024. Arja Kastinen’s two-hour improvisation concert with small kanteles at the Kamppi Chapel from 18.00 to 20.00. Facebook-event. Free entry to the Chapel from 17.30. The audience may attend the whole event, or enter and leave when they please, respecting the quiet nature of the event. Arja Kastinen’s […]

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Kantervo album reviewed in RootsWorld magazine

April 30, 2024

News

This week’s RootsWorld magazine features a review of the Kantervo album by Andrew Cronshaw. The article also includes a review of a kantele & Hardanger fiddle album, Talende Strenger, by Ragnhild Knudsen & Pauliina Syrjälä. Andrew Cronshaw is a British multi-instrumentalist and world music journalist with a long and distinguished career. On his twelfth album, […]

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