kantele

Finnish and Karelian plucked string instrument
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kantele

Summary

kantele is a music tradition[1]. kantele draws 473 Wikipedia views per month (music_tradition category, ranking #4 of 10).[2]

Key Facts

  • kantele's instance of is recorded as music tradition[3].
  • kantele took place at Karelia[4].
  • The location of kantele was Finland[5].
  • kantele is a type of Baltic psaltery[6].
  • kantele's Commons category is recorded as Kantele[7].
  • kantele's country of origin is recorded as Finland[8].
  • kantele's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Kantele[9].
  • kantele's described at URL is recorded as https://wiki.aineetonkulttuuriperinto.fi/wiki/Kanteleen_soitto_ja_rakentaminen[10].
  • kantele's described at URL is recorded as https://wiki.aineetonkulttuuriperinto.fi/wiki/Playing_and_building_the_kantele[11].
  • kantele's described at URL is recorded as https://wiki.aineetonkulttuuriperinto.fi/wiki/Att_spela_och_bygga_kantele[12].
  • kantele's described by source is recorded as Riemann's Music Dictionary[13].
  • kantele's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • kantele's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'fi', 'text': 'kantele'}[15].
  • kantele's Hornbostel-Sachs classification is recorded as 314.122-5[16].
  • kantele's different from is recorded as kandel[17].
  • kantele's intangible cultural heritage status is recorded as National Inventory of Living Heritage in Finland[18].
  • kantele's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Intangible Cultural Heritage[19].

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Definition and Type

kantele's instance of is recorded as music tradition[3]. kantele is a type of Baltic psaltery[6].

Why It Matters

kantele draws 473 Wikipedia views per month (music_tradition category, ranking #4 of 10).[2] kantele has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] kantele is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wiki.aineetonkulttuuriperinto.fi. Retrieved . wiki.aineetonkulttuuriperinto.fi. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . en.wikipedia.org. en.wikipedia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wiki.aineetonkulttuuriperinto.fi. wiki.aineetonkulttuuriperinto.fi. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wiki.aineetonkulttuuriperinto.fi. Retrieved . wiki.aineetonkulttuuriperinto.fi. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country of origin
    Instance of music tradition
    Aliases
    Different from kandel
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    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 5855, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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