Ida Elina - Evolution of Kantele (Finnish Harp)

Special thanks
IMU Inkoon Musiikki & Sinikka Kontio

Video crew:

Directing, Lighting & Filming
V-P Kangas

Producing, Lighting, Filming, Editing & Colour editing
Eetu Linnankivi

Make-up & Hair: Else Tunturipuro

Recording & mixing & mastering
Tuomas Aukio / Creative Sound
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Trad. - Kalevalainen sävelmä / Karelian melody
Trad. - Pitkäpaaden polkka / Pitkäpaasi polka
Kreeta Haapasalo - Mun kanteleeni / My kantele
Oskar Merikanto - Kesäillan idylli / Summer Evening's Idyll
Trad. - Läksin minä kesäyönä käymään / One time on a Summer's Night
Trad. - Vanhan kartanon kehräävä rukki / Old Spinning Wheel
Martti Pokela - Pollati poro lullati
Trad. - Konevitsan kirkonkellot / Churchbells of Konevitsa
Matti Kontio - Botnia Blues
Trad. - Marilaulu
James Hetfield / Lars Ulrich - Nothing else matters
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Christopher Stewart / Terius Nash / Kuk Harrell / Shawn Carter - Umbrella
Pharrell Williams - Happy
Egbert Nathaniel Dawkings III / Mike Einziger / Tim Berling - Wake me up
Mark Ronson / Bruno Mars/ Philip Lawrence/ Jeff Bhasker/ Nicholas Williams/ Devon Gallaspy/ Charles Wilson/ Robert Wilson/ Ronnie Wilson/ Rudolph Taylor/ Lonnie Simmons - Uptown funk
Ed Sheeran / Steve Mac / Johnny McDaid /Kandi Burruss / Tameka Cottle / Kevin Briggs - Shape of you
Ida Elina - Work it

[drivernephi]

Kantele sais kyllä tehdä comebackin suomalaiseen nykymusiikkiin.

[essi]

Nyt oli hyvä kanteleen historian esittely, tuli ihan hyvä mieli ja hymy huulille.😊

[therealzilch]

Awesome. Informative, virtuostic, heartfelt. Subscribed.

I play a similar instrument: it's the medieval psaltery harp, which is like a kantele with strings on both sides. There's something magical about plucked strings.

cheers from sunny Vienna, Scott

[arno-luyendijk]

Omg. This instrument in all its incarnations has a magic from the first notes onwards. So beautiful that folk musicians in Finland have kept its music traditions alive. A gift to the world.

[rodilhector]

Wow, You´re an incredible musician !!! Congrats

[Nozawana_onigiri]

Wow…How beautiful this is!
Greeting from Japan.

[breathe]

This is awesome, makes me really want to learn how to play the Kantele!

[Yews]

This video’s thumbnail is a literal work of art and it’s a shame there isn’t an entire 10-hour-long video of traditional Finnish music or something, in that exact setting

[cristianzarate]

Eres increible. No me sorprenderia que fueras viral dentro de poco tiempo. Aprovecha los cortos!!

[phmagnabosc]

I came here out of interest for comparing various zithers and ancient instruments.
I am blown away.

[ПарсакаовЮрий]

Супер !!!!
очень богатый инструмент, целый оркестр.

[ulricus]

The "old" instruments were best! But... nice to see what`s possibel.

[pablojimenezschlegl]

So many registers you dominate so skillfully... and you have a wonderful voice too! And the best of all: you really enjoy it, and transmit this joy to your watchers/listeners. Once more it becomes evident that a good sense of humour is related to intelligence and talent. Thank you so much for sharing this gift with the world! Greetings and hugs from Catalunya!

[seacreacherdiet]

I've only ever heard old style kantele playing, so to hear the 1700's onward was really a shock to me! Until now I thought it was all smooth slow melodies, kept mainly to nice little strums, but this is /awesome/ -- incredible work, and extremely enlightening and eye-opening! Cheers from the USA! ^^

[Timbyte]

From sweet folk music, to trash garbage pop that tries so hard to sound like a guitar.

[kupariusa]

I love you more than you than you will ever understand.

[TAGMATAGMATON]

When does the whole world realise there is indeed a ''nation'' called the finns?

[An_Entire_Spinell]

I like how 1990s was Nothing Else Matters by Metallica.

[tanssijatytto]

Mahtavaa! Tiedän noista kappaleista joitakin, mutta en ole itse opetellut mitään noista. Video oli mielenkiintoinen. Mulla on itellä nuottikirja, jossa on tuo Vanhan kartanon kehräävä rukki, mutta ei ole tullut vielä opeteltua sitä.

[Twiddle_things]

I just found out that the kantele is considered unusual and my world has been shattered. My raised in Finland heart 😔