My Kantele (Eriskummainen kantele) - Loituma

Eriskummainen kantele/My Kantele by Loituma from their 1998 album Things of Beauty. “The text is from the Kanteletar (1840), a collection of folk poetry made by Elias Lönnrot, compiler of the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala.“ “A kantele is a traditional plucked string instrument of the zither family native to Finland. The oldest forms of kantele have 5 or 6 horsehair strings, and the modern concert kantele can have up to 40 strings. In Finland’s national epic, Kalevala, the mage Väinämöinen makes the