Memory of music - folk instrument videos (part 7)

Peasant kantele - Pauliina Syrjälä
/ kantelar

[@BrickwallStudios0]

I'm watching this last few years, and everything is perfect - instrument, melody, playing... There's so many old European instruments that's like impossible to find. I would really like to have collection of old folk instruments

[@rmcshakes9934]

+DelBoy www.thomann.de/ie/folk_instruments.html

[@punypoppy9147]

+DelBoy Oh me too, me too! This Kantele in question here can easily cost alot though and isn't comparable to the small regular ones. I once contacted one kantele maker and i cannot recall the type anymore i was asking about but it was thousands of euros worth in money and i let it be at the time.

[@grimmwolf100]

+John Mirra www.kantele.com/ has Kanteles made in Minnesota and for a reasonable price

[@pauliinasyrjala7641]

This particular kantele I use on the video costs around 800 €, not thousands... :-)

[@agnieszkaszuba2271]

@@pauliinasyrjala7641 may I ask where did you buy the instrument from?

[@DeltaSilver88]

I think the one singing would be Mielikki, the Finnish goddess of the forest. Freyja doesn't even exist in Finnish mythology (neither does Odin - his Finnish equivalent is Ukko).

[@InsTAus793]

I feel like i've travelled back in time to an ancient era and it feels amazing. I love it when music can give you the sensation of travelling back in time and living in another era for a moment of time.

[@gustavomendozajimenez2243]

Beautiful music from a beautiful country

[@finnhollow]

I keep going back to this !

[@revivantes]

What an outstanding performance! I hear the feast in the forest, with song and dance. Karkelo!

[@gabrielbercot3728]

This sound is very beautiful @_@. A big hug from Brazil

[@theGizmo100]

the finns dont share the same mythologi as Sweden, Denmark or Norway. So Freyja has nothing to do with them. They have their own gods of mythologi

[@3AMJH]

Yes, but their ancient religion was partly influenced by the proto-Germanic religion(s?), so there are plenty of similarities as well as differences.

[@Ernthir]

​@@3AMJH Proto-germanic is a constructed language. Not a mythology. Finnish does not even come from a proto-germanic language but from an uralic language. It's a completely different language group.

[@3AMJH]

@@Ernthir I know. It doesn't matter whether the language families are different. Germanic and Uralic people had lots of contact with each other. That is partly where Germanic inluences like words kuningas (king) and keihäs (spear) come into the Finnish language. What little we know of Finnish paganism, it obviously had similarities.

[@marksoderstrom8695]

Stunning. I keep coming back to listen again.

[@faselblaDer3te]

Beautiful! I absolutely adore the sound of this instrument!

[@shemonster8475]

I'm in love... Beautiful!

[@SPLENDIDZEN]

* * * * * * SIX GOLDEN STARS!...

[@suicidere2483]

I think i tried playing a kantele in 1st grade, well i'm Finnish. Everyone else in my class had to play it too.

[@House_of_Caine]

Same here, though it was in the 80's =)

[@drakkvonboza]

Fucking Amazing.., I am glad to have found this today..,

[@erichusher9218]

Simply amazing sound!

[@Valentina-so1oc]

Musica meravigliosa 😊

[@EdLuhrs]

Kiitos... beautiful music!

[@EneriGiilaan]

@laelamarie1 In Finnish this is called Kantele or Kannel - there many variants and even some new models - like electric ones. There is actually a family of related instrument around the Baltic, e.g., the Russians have a very similar instrument called Gusli (sp?).

[@chocodash]

Wow. Incredible.

[@CatherineSTodd]

Beautiful!

[@annickagruvstad6840]

amazing

[@ralphyboy25]

@ralphyboy25 Well I finally picked up a copy of her CD "Monet nävöt". I was absolutely enthralled at the beauty and uniqueness of her compositions. This particular piece "Muanitus" is over 8-1/2 minutes long on the CD version. The majority of the CD is similar to this, in that it blends some traditional themes with a lot of improvisional spirit. Pauliina definitely has her own style. Looking for more of her work.

[@Onionbaron]

I just bought a Kantele and are renovating it now... Thought i could learn to play it... When i see this, I quickly decide to not give it a try... So beautiful!

[@galvanizedcorpse]

Micael Håkans I'm about to buy one as soon as possible! this is mind blowing

[@punypoppy9147]

Some skills there! Really nice playing!!

[@streetwingsband]

Magistral!

[@blipblip88]

Beautiful

[@GrenBartley]

Great!!

[@kcthewanderer]

Lovely!

[@jhonnytheboy1975]

Love it

[@MrDjihel]

Magic !!!

[@keithjones453]

Fantastic! Your playing has always impressed us, but this performance is just stunning... Will contact you soon Love Keith & Liz x x

[@micidiale8708]

Very nice !

[@ralphyboy25]

I really like the originality in this song. It starts off sounding traditional, and then by 2:12 she plays some chords reminiscent of Jimmy Page's 12-string. I understand that Paulinna has at least one CD out titled " Monet nävöt ", of which this song "Muanitus" is on. I'm searching for a copy of this CD, as I am guessing it is probably full of a lot of interesting material worth exploring.

[@lalaone1two2]

Beautiful! Inspiring. Creative! Thanks for sharing. I have a kantele, and goof around on it, but this makes me want to take some lessons. You're too far from Milwaukee though, oh well. Next summer I might visit Finland though...

[@cristobalcolchero6044]

Precioso

[@kernowrock555]

Kaunis.... :)

[@RobertoGPellegrino]

foreste laghi e miti

[@user-vt1sz2rq6z]

Очень красиво

[@mtuulikki]

Kaunis!

[@galvanizedcorpse]

Michelle Von Liechtenstein Agree

[@user-ip8ir1vs2f]

браво

[@Zen-zh8sv]

I might actually try to make this (And yes i have thought of the many problems i would encounter. Like getting the right strings, correct measurements and etc.)

[@3AMJH]

So it has been two years now, did you ever try making it?

[@MissWanderlily]

How...?!

[@Mathmagicality]

Great job! What are you playing with? Some sort of toothpick thing?

[@enantiodromia]

Thank you for sharing this beautiful video. Could you by any means tell me what make and model of kantele Mrs. Syrjälä is playing? I think I fell in love with the sound of that instrument.

[@enantiodromia]

***** Thank you for your reply. In the last 4 weeks, I have become somewhat more aquainted with different kinds of kanteles. Now I would like to purchase one with 15 to 19 strings, possibly one from Keijo Säteri. So far, I have not found any better sounding kanteles.

[@sjalistra]

It indeed is a toothpick

[@robertmiles1603]

i guess her kid was born preferring melodic black death folk metal

[@daddyleon]

I thought a Kantele only had 5 strings? Lovely sounds, could really be mysterious easily :)

[@Itapirkanmaa2]

It had 15 strings already in the 1800s. Currently the chromatic ones have up to 39 strings.

[@daddyleon]

Itapirkanmaa2 oh, thanks :) I had no idea.

[@brianray8351]

Okay, sonic nerd question. There is this - AWESOME - effect beginning at 1:35 and ending at 1:41. It's caused by striking the string closer to the bridge and then moving further down the body, I know that much. But what is that effect called? I want to see if I can find, or even create a pedal that modulates that effect?

[@lucaslemonholm5492]

So when you pluck a string, it will try to get back to the shape that it was in when you pulled it back (obviously it can't all the way bc energy is lost to sound/heat). The harmonics of the string, which determine the tone of the note produced, are influenced by/influence the shape of the vibrating string. For example, if you pluck the string exactly in the center, all of the even harmonics, which have nodes where they are not vibrating in the center, will be absent in the tone. A string plucked close to the bridge, on the other hand, will require the smaller wave shapes of higher harmonics to create the irregular shape that the vibrating string is trying to produce.

[@lucaslemonholm5492]

Pt. 2: This would suggest that what you're looking for is some kind of filter like a lowpass filter that amplifies increasingly higher harmonics, but i get the sense that that's not the whole picture. It seems like the fundamental frequency gets weaker as you go as well. In any case, i hope this is helpful and I wish you good luck with this interesting project.

[@Hemppu7]

If you eant i have 37 edition kantele i can make kantele videos if ya want :3

[@heikkitoivonen5227]

Erinomainen laulu, tervehdykset

[@unipachu]

Aika hurjan siistin kuulosta. Tästä tulee sellanen todella vahva, vanhanaikainen, Pohjois-Eurooppalainen fiilis. Tykkään.

[@hargous]

Michel Gutierez

[@taekomatsutaka3807]

wha, wha, what is this??

[@UnclePutte]

Good that you asked! The kantele is an instrument from beyond time and legend, the greatest instrument of the Fenno-Ugric peoples. It has a sensitive, fragile and haunting sound that is closely reminiscent of its nature as a conduit of the spirituality of the people and the region, the close connection to nature, and the ephemeral. It is an instrument steeped as much in mythology as it is in history, being the instrument of great heroes and wizards, a vessel of creating enchantment and magic. In these days, few play it, as much of the culture surrounding the instrument dwindled with the lost realm of Karjala, but the few that do create impressions much as yours.

[@House_of_Caine]

Funny you should ask, as one of your own is a master of Kantele... Look up Mitsuko Sato and her kantele videos =)

[@JacobAhlesten]

yyayyya

[@meddlingkids7603]

Needs more cowbell. Also tuohitorvi.

[@tramaloki1631]

Pretty good, not bad...Väinämöinen would play it better ;)

[@Raptorsan86]

He sure would :D

[@House_of_Caine]

Väinämöinen would also sing you into a bog, just saying... ;)

[@1k1master1k1]

есть видео,где она голая играет?j

[@cheezydeez5887]

So it almost some with Kato from Japan

[@TheSkillerV]

Limaista on.

[@ThyArkham]

Peasant my ass. Freyja herself is singing.