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Post by Dick Glasgow on May 6, 2009 17:33:40 GMT 1
Hello Arjakastinen & welcome to the Dulcimer Player's Forum.
We are all delighted that you are now a member and we look forward to your contributions to the discussions here.
Please tell us a little bit about yourself, your music & your Dulcimers.
Then, why not hop over to our Where are you? poll and click on your own area!
Cheers
'Ptarmigan'
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Post by arjakastinen on May 7, 2009 6:13:50 GMT 1
Hello everyone!
I'm a kantele player from Finland and my passion is the 19th century Karelian kantele improvisation. I've got 5-, 10-, 11-, 14-, 15-, 36- and 37-string kanteles with different shapes and structures and with steel, bronze and horse hair strings. I love the amazing variety of timbres in different kanteles - even one sound seems to contain more information than any words can tell..
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Post by Dick Glasgow on May 7, 2009 20:21:12 GMT 1
WOW! That's quite a collection you have there. I wonder, have you posted photos of them anywhere? I have no doubt you can be so much more expressive, when you are using your fingers on the strings, rather than just bashing them with hammers as us Dulcimer players do!  Cheers Dick |
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Post by arjakastinen on May 12, 2009 8:21:54 GMT 1
There are pictures of some of my kanteles in the Gallery of my website (www.temps.fi).
In fact, in addition to plucking by fingertips, nowadays kantele players use also sticks, picks, slides, bows etc.
Arja
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Post by Dick Glasgow on May 12, 2009 15:20:34 GMT 1
Thanks, they are great looking instruments & those certainly are beautiful photographs.
Cheers
Dick
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Post by Nikita on May 13, 2009 13:12:43 GMT 1
Very very nice photos !  And I'm listening to your music (the mp3 on line...).... just the thing to make my afternoon nice and calm ! Do you know Maria Kalienemi ? she's one of my favourite box player... |
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