Players hold the kantele in their laps or on a small table.

Other symbols of his faith include the kantele and the number nine.

The latter made it possible to produce wider dynamic range on the kantele than ever before.

Modern concert kantele can have up to 40 strings.

In 1999 Koistinen designed and built the first solid body electric kantele.

In 1995 a 39 string was added to a concert kantele thus setting a new standard for professional instruments.

The last song of the album is a 17 minute epic featuring such special instruments as kantele.

Väinämöinen sails away leaving only his songs and kantele as legacy.

Pokela was an expert with the kantele, Finland's national musical instrument.

Väinämöinen's magic kantele which he made from the jaws of a huge pike.

By that time he had already published three articles entitled Kantele and had significant notes to build upon.

The poetry was often sung to music built on a pentachord, sometimes assisted by a kantele player.

While on their journey they kill a monstrous pike and from its jaw bone the first kantele is made.

One of his drawings from 1886 depicts Väinämöinen playing his kantele.

A 39-string instrument supplied with 2 microphone systems, contact and magnetic, has opened an entirely new perspective of the kantele.

Though not acoustically efficient, this construction is part of the distinctive sound of the kantele.

Väinö fashions a kantele, a musical instrument, from a birch tree.

Väinämöinen tells the people this battle will be fought using kantele and not bladed weapons.

Among them is Väinämöinen, who, among other things, complains that one only gets women by playing the electric kantele.

Since then Koistinen concert kanteles gained a respected position within kantele circles.

The Jouhikko is also called jouhikannel or jouhikantele, meaning a bowed kantele.

The kantele has a distinctive bell-like sound.

Koistinen's electric kantele is widely employed on Finnish neo-medieval music.

Ilagan won two more legs but Kantele was always in control and a 60 checkout completed the final preliminary round match.

In the process, he gets the kantele back and is able to lure Iku-Turso back to the sea.