Non of kanteles is feminine. I am finnish man and I have 11 string kantele. Our forefathers used to play the old kantele and rune singers were mostly men

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Hi ! I'm looking for a good website making Kantele, can you tell me if it's quality and sounds good ? thanks

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I am more than aware that this is a year late but I actually have an answer. Kanteles and most traditional Finnish music is based around the pentatonic scale, meaning that they only use 5 notes compared to the standard diatonic scale of 7 notes. This is actually very common for traditional folk music globally being seen in traditional music stretching from across Europe, Asia, and Africa. If anything modern western 12 tone equal temperament is the weird system. If you want to learn more, I highly recommend watching videos from "12 tone" who has several videos on tuning systems, their history and the theory behind them.

That type kantele are not usually heavy. Its hollow and open from bottom.

@@sallyk5733 oh ok, but do you know the weight for this size of Kantele?

@@gabutman6144 about 2kg. I have different model, 15 string also and it weights about 2 kg and when I checked lovikka 16 string measurements on their site it said its 2 kg.

@@sallyk5733 alright, thank you very much for the info! Much appreciated ^^

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Once I asked a Finnish musician which kantele size I should start with. His answer: "Just start anywhere". I guess, Finnisch children also learn kantele in school. So, I would say, "yes, this is the right one."

Maybe it was a 10-string? I've got one, and it's got major and minor

The note B is H in many European countries. To Finland that tradition came from Germany where a lot of cultural influence came from with Lutheranism.

The German note "H" (engl. B) is often said to have been invented, because a monk, who was either drunk or sleepy (or both), made a typo, while transcribing notes manually from one document to another. But historically correct is: in medieval church music, the forth (4 notes) was considered the perfect interval: C-F, D-G, E-A... but F-B is a tritonus (aka "the devil's interval"), so they had to 'invent' another tone between A and B --> voilá: B flat. Derived from the way notes were written back then, the 'old' B then was named H after the #, which ressembles the letter h, whereas the 'new' one was called B. Even nowadays, # means, you play the note one half-tone higher, whereas the b tells you to play that note one half-tone lower. And what's more: their Latin names 'b durum' ("hard B" = B) and 'b molle' ("soft B" = Bb) made us differentiate scales between major (german "Dur) and minor (german: "Moll").

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