Travel Bug Dog Tag Kantele

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Owner:
Tytti&Mixa Send Message to Owner Message this owner
Released:
Monday, July 24, 2006
Origin:
Finland
Recently Spotted:
In Des Königs Handy - Station 5: Glindow

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It would be nice to see pictures of different folk or self made instruments all over the world.

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The Kantele – Finland's national instrument
The kantele (or kannel) and rune-singing both symbolise ancient Finnish culture. In the Kalevala, Elias Lönnrot had constructed an image of a mythic kantele, made of the jawbone of a pike, as the typically Finnish musical instrument of the epic hero Väinämöinen. In the final stages of the work, the kantele is an essential part of the power of Väinämöinen's song. It was thus, through the Kalevala, that the kantele became, in the 19th century, the Finns' national instrument.
The kantele is the oldest Finnish folk instrument, and is classed as a cordophone, that is, an instrument whose sound arises from a string stretched between two fixed points. The other Finnic tribes of the Baltic used similar instruments, as did a few Finno-Ugrian peoples, in addition to the Balts and the Russians.
The history of kantele stretches back a couple of thousand years. There is no accurate information as to its age. The older type of instrument was made by hollowing out the trunk of a pine, spruce or alder. The strings, of which there were usually five, were attached at one end to tuning pegs and at the other to a metal shank. The instrument was tuned to a diatonic scale between its bass and top notes which could , depending on the tuning of the central string, be either major or minor.

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    Tracking History (1806.1mi) View Map

    Dropped Off 9/15/2007 Ilcoron placed it in Des Königs Handy - Station 5: Glindow Brandenburg, Germany - 111.92 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 8/31/2007 Ilcoron retrieved it from Festung-Königstein Sachsen, Germany   Visit Log

    What is this? ... Come with me.
    Dropped Off 8/27/2007 Get Carter placed it in Festung-Königstein Sachsen, Germany - 105.67 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 8/15/2007 Get Carter retrieved it from Alhuser Ahe Niedersachsen, Germany   Visit Log

    Mitgenommen
    Dropped Off 8/6/2007 fielo placed it in Alhuser Ahe Niedersachsen, Germany - 71.69 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 7/26/2007 fielo retrieved it from Kleine Tierkunde: Hasen Niedersachsen, Germany   Visit Log

    Come with uns - there´s no music in the wood except from birds!
    Dropped Off 7/24/2007 reaktivlicht placed it in Kleine Tierkunde: Hasen Niedersachsen, Germany - 12.24 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 4/30/2007 reaktivlicht retrieved it from Holz im Wald Niedersachsen, Germany   Visit Log

    Weiter geht's
    Dropped Off 4/29/2007 Snorre placed it in Holz im Wald Niedersachsen, Germany - 135.93 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 3/11/2007 Snorre retrieved it from Rostocker Heide Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany   Visit Log

    Greetings from Rostock. Retrvieded the TB there and it takes some days to the next station. Your Kantele is in good hands and I´ll try my very best...

    Snorre
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