my Kantele

this a Kantele that i built with my father. after looking online for some plains we couldn't find any for free so my dad and i just made a guess at how big to make it, i think it came out rather nice.

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Music

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• Kantele
• playing
• kantele

[vinterfroest]

Mites tuo on viritetty? Aivan upea soitin.

[trowawing99]

@vinterfroest D C# B A G F#

[DUVOODUtattoo]

home depot wood !!! heheheheh

[trowawing99]

@DUVOODUtattoo

i didn't use wood from home depot. i acturally used part of cherry tree that my dad and i cut down. but you could use wood from homedepot.

[BioHazard1Fin1]

Yeah, it has a great sound, but your playing it with a completely wrong technique (no offence intended). But if you like the sound of Kantele, check out a folk/black metal band Häive, since they use Kanteles in their music (I Raina is a perfect example).

[trowawing99]

i completely understand. but also this video is also 2 years old i still have to fix it and work on playing properly.

[laihof]

Kaunis

[blueberrybagel]

thirdly, it's traditional to pluck the strings, not strum like a guitar. (i mean you can strum, but it's not the "tradition".) by plucking you get a muuuch softer sound and the notes sustain longer. and you can still do cool chords and stuff. try playing what you did again but plucking instead.

however, it looks BEAUTIFUL!!!! Very good job, it's gorgeous, and the scrollwork is quite nice. you sound like a good guitar player too!

[purelightink]

I like the sound hole design! I'm 1/4 Finnish and just discovered Finnish music just a couple weeks ago. Glad to see you take an interest in your culture at an earlier age. It's been a couple years since you posted, so I agree. It's time to post again and show us what you've learned, etc.

[lunhil12]

Very nice, I just got the bug and am thinking of building a hollowed 10 string.

[llamaswithattitude]

Niin kaunis.

[a0e0roberts]

OK, we're waiting for a new video. I'd like to see what you've learned since doing this one. Picking, struming eh?

The only reason I can think of for putting a sound hole on the bottom is to have a place to clip a microphone. Having no bridge, there's not a good place on top to put the mic.