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Kantele
Finnish and Karelian plucked string instrument / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the Japanese TV station with the nickname "Kantele", see Kansai Telecasting Corporation.
A kantele (Finnish: [ˈkɑntele])[1] or kannel (Finnish: [ˈkɑnːel]) is a traditional Finnish and Karelian plucked string instrument (chordophone) belonging to the south east Baltic box zither family known as the Baltic psaltery along with Estonian kannel, Latvian kokles, Lithuanian kanklės and Russian gusli.[2]
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