The Finnish Kantele: Performance by Salla Pesonen

[@WhereOceansMeeet]

I recently started learning Finnish and Duolingo keeps mentioning a kantele so I had to hear this thing. I'm impressed! It seems that most things about Suomi are beautiful!

[@austinhaynes7861]

Is it working because I just started about a week ago and am wondering if it's worth it

[@WhereOceansMeeet]

@@austinhaynes7861 Do you mean learning on Duolingo?

[@austinhaynes7861]

@@WhereOceansMeeet yeah

[@WhereOceansMeeet]

@@austinhaynes7861 It's an alright app for teaching basic things. The problem I have with it is if you're going from English to a language such as Finnish or Spanish, at some point the sentence structure becomes crazy and there's no explanation as to why it's like that. I even know a Finnish person and they can't explain it to me. Still, it's you're striving for simple stuff, you can't go wrong for a free app.

[@austinhaynes7861]

@@WhereOceansMeeet thanks that helps alot I was trying to make sure it's not a waste of time

[@energiam880]

Finnish melodies are so damn sweet. Even their technical death metals are so melodic ==D

[@oliverjohn5566]

Amorphis, Korpiklaani, Insomnium

[@energiam880]

Moonsorrow too )))

[@TheRealSolardisaster]

i was blessed to sit and hear her music before losing my hearing - - - Karelia will never leave me, just because of her.

[@cdbrown30]

What’d you say?

[@TheRealSolardisaster]

@@cdbrown30 huh huh huh 😂 butthead lmao

[@vittuix7662]

@@cdbrown30 Russia stole it.

[@juliansanders6324]

It's outrageous that people are talking over such fabulously beautiful music. But well done Salla! Well done indeed!

[@keithseddon9723]

Inspired by this, and other videos. I have just finished making my own 5-string kantele.

[@LyssasHandicraft]

The first song is so beautiful it sounds like it's taken from a dream🤩🤩😍😍

[@karlbolundstedt]

LUCKY YOU! 👍🙏 99 % OF PEOPLE DOES "NOT" DREAM ABOUT THINGS LIKE THIS.. KB

[@Buddypal2323231]

First time I've ever seen a kantele. I don't get out enough! Beautiful instrument and music, thank you for sharing!

[@PercivalC]

Wow, what a beautiful sound. I love old musical instruments like this, and the Lyre.

[@Mikau-gb8uo]

Amorphis brought me here :) what a beautiful and soulful playing.. very relaxing too..:)

[@lastinlineband1]

Amorphis brought me here too! My Kantele! :D

[@Fudzbo]

Me as well. Such an incredible band. I favor more their new stuff (Tomi Joutsen's voice is simply amazing), but I feel like their music has much more Soul and background behind it than some other bands out there.

[@Italvina]

I love Amorphis!!!!!!!!!!!

[@fallartifact8904]

Nest brought me here

[@Necronomicron8]

Suddenly, Ensiferum brought me here.

[@jesusj.ramirezesc.6618]

un sonido realmente hermoso, lastima que no lo tengamos aqui en México, me gusta mucho la musica finesa, y escuchar el sondido del kantele me relaja, es hermoso su sonido de verdad, saludos desde México

[@anniehamilton2465]

This is a fabulous sound, the instrument has many voices, thankyou for playing so beautifully.

[@microcultben5729]

My grandmother played kantele she was from lahti.. /Benjamin from sweden

[@monahellsingtroili9564]

paradisiskt spelat Tack Salla🌹

[@scanpolar]

Kiitos Salla !

[@teutonieth]

Kantele is an ancient instrument and you can see many similiar instruments around the world, like the chinese gu zheng, japanese koto and the various slavic counterparts like gusli. There is no way of telling where it originated, but i'd wager china as they reached a cultural golden age around the same time as the ancient greece.

[@timomastosalo]

+teutonieth Or an older culture. Probably it wass invented before that cultural blossom in China. When did people learn to make strings? At least with the horses. So my guess is it comes from the rider cultures o the steppes between Ukraine aand Mongolia. There it's easy to spread the instrument to west, east and north. Also south, but there was more population with their own traditions. Like lute and sitar

[@Krabadaque]

In May 2017 I built a five string kantele strung with horsehair from a local horse. Sounds very special, very ancient, but very soft, too, so when there's an audience I need to amplify it. Works well, though.

[@saarinenj1]

Kantele is Finnish tho.

[@McSlobo]

The first string instrument is ... bow (weapon, tool for fire making, etc). If you connect a bow to any "sound box", like a vase or a hollow piece of wood, you practically have a proto-guitar / -kantele. This technology goes back maybe 70000 years.

[@TLCTugger]

What a beautiful gift.

[@paulomendez5859]

Amorphis brought me here, so quiet and peaceful!

[@JamesDechka]

Beautiful instrument

[@HostileHeretic]

I have heard the song Walking in the air, played with kantele. it was 15 years ago.

[@danielbaugher826]

Beautifully played

[@CamerOneiric]

Soooo amazing

[@johnthaickal1]

kantele on todella kaunis soitin. sina olet kaunis mies. suomi on hyva maa. I am from India. I am studying basics of Finnish using Duolingo

[@stanpatterson5033]

I can't believe the amount of background noise going on. People yapping, whispering, whatnot... if you're there and someone is performing, either shut the hell up, or get the hell out of the room. Disgusting that nobody would give this performer some respect.

[@takku88]

That's common nowadays. People don't know how to be quiet.

[@fredaltensee363]

Gorgeous.

[@caveguy22]

I'm gonna be making one of these next week :)

[@caveguy22]

It failed miserably.

[@foreverunsure]

oh well...thanks for the update though

[@fugalibrana]

What a beautiful interpretation! (Please shut up people in the room!!) 👏👏👏👏👏

[@bulledereve9824]

Thanks a lot for sharing this :o) Beautiful instrument, indeed ! I thought that nothing could sound as amazing as a hammered dulcimer, but I was completely wrong ^^ Second song's title please please pleaaaaaaaaaase ???

[@sapphicsapphire82]

Todella kaunis. ❤

[@riccardodessole2017]

First song's title, please? It's so beautiful!

[@keithsati4211]

Love the Finnish accent! :) :)

[@GeorgeAustinTay]

I discovered this amazing instrument thanks to Jenni Vartiainen!

[@marcoantoniomorenomiranda486]

Me to Loituma xD

[@heliogonzalezsanchez8227]

me to girls und panzer

[@FloRyan]

Great video, thanks for sharing! Greetings, ~Flo

[@jorgeegrojjorge]

gorgeous!

[@Pendge]

Imagine tuning that thing geez

[@ohmphurin2010]

This sound is like Thai instruments, maybe this instrument can adapt with Traditional song of Thailand. Nice Kantale

[@persaukko8393]

Well done!

[@nisse8819]

Kantele on kaunis soitin!

[@Uroboro_Djinn]

Sounds like the Greek santouri. Great sound...

[@jlederman17gmail.comlederman]

Beautiful! How do I find a rich-toned, many-stringed instrument like that one?

[@3AMJH]

I'm sure you can buy these kantele instruments online.

[@eshebang]

With all due respect, the instrument is not old.

[@3AMJH]

@@eshebang Now I'm confused as neither of us mentioned age...

[@eshebang]

@@3AMJH Again, with all due respect for fellow melomane, I was concerned that calling this instrument old was placing it in the past as for me such instruments are timeless, and obviously the kantele in the video looks very 'new'. I understand you meant that instrument is probably a few hundred years old, going through many 'configurations', but I was also concerned that it would reflect on Finnish folk music as also belonging to the past. Indeed we're not in Top-40 chart here, number 1 one day, gone the next week.

[@3AMJH]

@@eshebang I can understand that, but I can't see any message on this specific message chain where anyone calls it old. Oh well.

[@discoveryourinnerartist5270]

Kaunis! Where can I find the sheet music for the first piece you played? Kiitos

[@kylieeden3342]

Can someone tell me what the first song is called? Please?

[@59acres]

The first song was "Oh Where Oh Where Has My Labia Gone?" by Snippy Vaginaoff

[@pauljames9738]

59acres I'm guessing eighth grade. Right?

[@Uttrediay]

@@pauljames9738 sixth at most.

[@lauraaxelsen6128]

Kaunis!

[@meddlingkids7603]

I wonder if Alan Stivel has ever tried his hand at kantele.

[@alice1417]

Wow my Finnish internet friend plays this, and its lovely :)

[@AmperageBassist]

do they know what song this is?

[@DYCODE6317]

I want to use your video for my presentation because the music is so beautiful!!! Can you allow me to use it?

[@qus.9617]

Is it only plucked on the left end of the strings?

[@NotOrdinaryInGames]

This can give the almighty 6 string guitar a run for its money.

[@granvilletower2326]

Kiittos!

[@Lunkefan1]

Our "Nyckel harpa" is superior! Now let us battel! On a more serious note, I have seen the instrument, and heard it before, but just recently discovered it's origin, I'm impressed. I still think we stand, a tiny bit above you, sure you got amazing folk metal, and a few of the greats from black metal. But we still originated the black metal genre even though norway took it and went crazy with it, your most famous folk metal band Finntroll sings in Swedish because the think it sounds more "evil" which makes no sense because no matter how happy a finn is it will always sound like a threat. Now us sweds we pretty much rule the melodic metal scene. Okay that was just nonsense for fun, I'm a northern swed, actually only half swed, rest is norwegian/finnish, and the finnish ones are the ones we keep in contact with, they live around rovaniemi and there are stunning places there, like ridiculously beautifull places.

[@Lunkefan1]

Honestly what I wrote was just drunk ramblings, just to see if I would get any response, haha!

[@allegedlyadult3737]

Lunke of course you sweds will get our response when you call! Unlike mister baruski next door ;)

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

Someone had to sush them. How rude. You can't hold your tongue for a few minutes while beautiful music is playing? What's so damn important? Is a fire breaking out? Is someone bleeding? In this situation and in others, everyone wants to use their mouth first and their ears second.

[@Abigor922]

Sourse?

[@snaskova]

the name of the first song please!!!

[@reddx7740]

+Stephie Naskova Ensiferum - Lai Lai Hei

[@Dragonkin7]

+Redd X You fucker

[@vollassitoni7795]

Maja Ra

[@krila6770]

so this is like a guitar but without frets and 500x more strings....

[@RoughriderV8]

Much nicer sounding instrument than the violin.

[@777dingo]

Beautiful, but too much background noise, people talking, slamming doors etc.

[@young30z]

kantele칸텔레, 핀란드 0:40 ~

[@apmikalogran]

This a new instrument for sure Is an open piano

[@pabloariza2295]

looks like a small piano without the cover

[@OdinComposer]

No way this sophisticated level of polyphony is 1000 years old

[@freezedeve3119]

time passes faster than you think

[@OdinComposer]

That literary makes no sense. The only polyphony at that time was simple parallel organum.

[@KimmoHintikka]

Really old versions of Kantele look nothing like the 38 string beast she is playing. Old once are 5-10 string types like pic in the link en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantele#/media/File:Five_string_kanteles.jpg

[@j.lahtinen7525]

To hear the ancestor to this Kantele (which, as a design, I'd guess wouldn't be much more than a 100 years old), look up the video titled "Nuku Nuku - Ancient Finnish Lullaby" by Merja Soria. That Kantele is more like the ancient instrument. The versions with more strings (including base strings in some, and and even concert Kantles with levers) are much younger.

[@ingvarlnilsson]

Svårt att förstå att "den gamle vise Väinemöjnen kunde göra en kantele av ett gäddben"...

[@heikkinylund8617]

Genital Autonomy conference? How about genetic?

[@heikkinylund8617]

Genital autonomy = sukuelinten itsehallinto

[@ВладимирШашкин-г1э]

Это гусли...

[@erichoyer8484]

Historische Kantele wurde aus Fischknochen gefertigt und klingt dann ganz anders. Eric Hoyer

[@MrCollinGabriel]

Genital Autonomy? Is this a joke?

[@captainsalazar8096]

No it's not. It's a convent for children's right to not be mutilated after birth. It's a yearly convent and happened to be in Helsinki in 2012.

[@coleharris8045]

Why the hell is the conference called Genital Autonomy? Is that like a language barrier or some shit?

[@luigiscarpelli74]

Obnoxious murmorizing audience offend my ears.

[@GreedAndSelfishness]

Bullshit.If anything russians took kantele and created gusli.

[@Krabadaque]

When people in Karelia etc first were playing kanteles Finland didn't even exist on the map! There was no border between what now is called Finland and Russia (nor Sweden!). So it's the same instrument. The Russians of today seem to call it Gusli, but it's the same instrument.

[@MrDen-lv5uj]

Gusli is a simpler variation of the instrument and not as advanced as the instrument shown here...

[@LngPHP]

Kantele was created from Slavic gusli

[@amberhawke]

Uhh... no. The Finish kantele, Russian gusli, Latvian kokle,Estonian kannel and Lithuanian Kankle are essentially the same instrument. Either the Finno-Ugric tribes (Finns and Estonians) or the Baltic tribes (Latvians and Lithuanians) developed this instrument. The Slavs had nothing to do with it, as the Slavs were not in that area at that time. Most of what is now western Russia was dominated by the Balts until the Slavs pushed them out centuries later.

[@Rottensparrow]

I just lost 5 iq listening to her english