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

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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Sommelo 2024!

April 15, 2024

News

The theme for the folk music festival Sommelo 2024 will be In the Pasture. There will be shepherd’s music and songs from many angles, from many countries, in diverse and intense ways. And as before, there are fascinating courses starting just before the festival. You can find the program in here: Sommelo 2024. Courses linked […]

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