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01 Mar 10 - 08:17 PM (#2853631) Subject: what is this kantele-like thing? From: Jack Campin EBay auction 200444073841. It's a two-foot-long rectangular box with ten strings. The strings run over the end of the box at the bottom (like a citera), but at the top they are wound directly onto two five-string sets of tuning pins, angled so the shortest end of each set is in the middle of the instrument, with the strings in the left set all shorter than those in the right set. If you number the strings left to right as 01234 56789, their lengths go 0123498765. So the arrangement of pitches is like an inside-out mbira. Anyone have any idea what it is? The seller doesn't. |
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01 Mar 10 - 09:04 PM (#2853663) Subject: RE: what is this kantele-like thing? From: Bert Maybe a hammer psaltery |
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01 Mar 10 - 10:23 PM (#2853704) Subject: RE: what is this kantele-like thing? From: GUEST A donde photo? bob(deckman)nelson ((kittos)) |
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02 Mar 10 - 04:41 AM (#2853842) Subject: RE: what is this kantele-like thing? From: Jack Blandiver Puts me in mind of a string-drum; if you tuned each of the strings sets to a different chord it would be nice with a three-hole pipe. I've draw up plans for such things in the past but never gotten round to construction. Might not be a musical instrument as such; in antiques shops I've come across beautifully constructed metalophones tuned to a chord which were used in lieu of dinner gongs, and one crude zither of four or five strings which once served the same purpose in a guest house. Curious piece though, not least for the trough-like construction - and one wonders if those two large marks on the sound board are indicative of an earlier string arrangement? |
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02 Mar 10 - 10:03 AM (#2854081) Subject: RE: what is this kantele-like thing? From: John P Looks like a rustic zither. |
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02 Mar 10 - 10:21 AM (#2854100) Subject: RE: what is this kantele-like thing? From: Leadfingers Clicky |
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02 Mar 10 - 01:59 PM (#2854296) Subject: RE: what is this kantele-like thing? From: GUEST,mg I believe it is a Finnish instrument from the name of it. I have not clicked. They have expert players down here in Finn country. mg |
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02 Mar 10 - 02:16 PM (#2854313) Subject: RE: what is this kantele-like thing? From: Deckman While it might be some kind of a non-traditional, homemade Kantele, I doubt it. Kanteles, at least the few I've seen (including my Grandmother's) were much deeper, and broader. But, most rural Finns made their own instruments out of whatever was growing in the woods nearby. And the arrangement of strings and bridges confuses me. bob nelson |
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02 Mar 10 - 03:33 PM (#2854387) Subject: RE: what is this kantele-like thing? From: Jack Campin I believe it is a Finnish instrument from the name of it. It was me that said it was like a kantele - the seller didn't have any name for it or any idea where it came from. |
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02 Mar 10 - 06:25 PM (#2854516) Subject: RE: what is this kantele-like thing? From: open mike don't you know a cheese slicer when you see one? especially good with that velveeta type of processed cheese.. |