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  • Man in the woods in the winter posing with a kantele | Canva photo

    The Gateway Harp

    November 07, 2023

    The kantele, variously classed as a kind of zither, psaltery or lap harp, is Finland's national instrument. Scholars debate whether its history reaches back a thousand years or perhaps as many as three thousand. Traditionally the kantele had five or six horsehair strings, was hollowed out from a single block of wood.