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

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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Sibelius Museum’s Large Kanteles

March 31, 2026

News

From 2014 to 2017, I photographed and measured all the kantele instruments at the Sibelius Museum in Turku. Information on the five‑string kantele and on small kantele instruments with more than five strings has been published previously. The third file, Sibelius Museum’s Large Kanteles, is now available at the bottom of the Research page. All […]

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