kantelen.
/ˈkɑntələ/ A form of zither used in Finland and Karelia.
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1921 Glasgow Herald 24 Nov. 8 Eastern Karelia, where the kantele players still survive, is the home of the most characteristic Finnish music.
1960 G. Taylor Mortlake iii. ix. 272 The kantele..was a large wooden box, pentagonal and tapering at one end. The five strings were stretched the length of the instrument.
1969 Listener 24 July 124/1 The best bits were musical: a lovely Lapp pentatonic chant, a zither-like instrument called a kantele, and, of course, liberal doses of Sibelius.
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