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

Rethinking Arts Education: How One School Beat the Curriculum Constraints

September 10, 2026

Blog

The latest issue of the Musiikkikasvatus journal (The Finnish Journal of Music Education, FJME, 1/2026) features a review article on the specialized activities at the Mika Waltari School in Laukkoski, Pornainen, where creative music-making has been integrated into the school’s operating culture through local decision-making: Kastinen, A. & Olkanen, T. (2026). Luovan musisoinnin pedagogisten käytäntöjen […]

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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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