mantel

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Plucked phrases on the kantele and the strings seem at once delicately spiritual and skittishly angular.

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2018

“The bass strings are something like rain; the small strings talk like a whisper,” a vocal quartet sings delicately above trilling strings and piccolo, while the kantele creates a resonant cascade of sound.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2018

But he only raked up shells and seaweed, and found no trace of the kantele.

From Finnish Legends for English Children by Eivind, R.

E'en the Daughters of Creation, Of the air the charming maidens, Gathered to rejoice and wonder, To the kantele to listen.

From Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes, Volume Two by Lönnrot, Elias

So Wainamoinen went up to her and begged her to give him some of her golden tresses, from which to weave the five strings for the kantele.

From Finnish Legends for English Children by Eivind, R.