The Kantele Finland's national instrument

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The Kantele Finland's national instrument

• Ewa Kurzak

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• The kantele (or kannel) and rune-singing both
  symbolise ancient Finnish culture. In the
  Kalevala, Elias Lönnrot had constructed an image
  of a mythic kantele, made of the jawbone of a
  pike, as the typically Finnish musical instrument
  of the epic hero Väinämöinen. In the final stages
  of the work, the kantele is an essential part of
  the power of Väinämöinen's song. It was thus,
  through the Kalevala, that the kantele became, in
  the 19th century, the Finns' national instrument.
• The kantele is the oldest Finnish folk
  instrument, and is classed as a cordophone, that
  is, an instrument whose sound arises from a
  string stretched between two fixed points. The
  other Finnic tribes of the Baltic used similar
  instruments, as did a few Finno-Ugrian peoples,
  in addition to the Balts and the Russians.

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Pupils from Naasin Koulu do national instruments
- Kandelas.
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Vejnemejnen play kandele
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