Carl Rahkonen's Kantele Site



Lecturing on the kantele at the 2007 FinnFest in Ashtabula, Ohio

I began research for a doctoral dissertation on the Finnish kantele in 1982.  On this site I make that dissertation available.  For a more concise and scholarly approach, I refer the reader to my kantele and gusli articles published in the second edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. See also my Baltic psaltery bibliography.

 

The Kantele Traditions of Finland  ©1989

 

My article: "Stuck as a Symbol"  ©2019

"Kantele" in the New Grove Dictiionary  ©2001

"Gusli" in the New Grove Dictionary 
©2001

Some related sites:

Kantele.net
Kanteleliitto (Finnish kantele society) in Finnish
Kantele builder Gerry Luoma Henkel
Koistinen Kantele
Jussi Laasanen (Master kantele and fiddle maker in Finland)
Zhoukov and Maraev kantele site
Russian gusli
Lani K. Thompson's kantelemusic.com site
Ancient Lithuanian Kankles


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