Kantele
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A kantele or kannel is a traditional Finnish and Karelian plucked string instrument. It belongs to the southeast Baltic box zither family known as the Baltic psaltery, along with the Estonian kannel,
Two five-string kanteles by Melodia Soitin (2014). The shape of the upper kantele is more traditional, while the shape for the kantele below is slightly modernised
Koistinen 38-stringed concert kantele
A man plays a kantele with his fingers in 1930s Finland
The Kantele Player by Pekka Halonen, 1892
Gusli
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The gusli or husla is the oldest East Slavic multi-string plucked instrument, belonging to the zither family, due to its strings being parallel to its resonance board. Its roots lie in Veliky Novgorod
Kantele
…Baltic box zither family known as the Baltic psaltery, along with the Estonian kannel, the Latvian kokles, the Lithuanian kanklės, and the Russian gusli. Modern instruments with 15 or fewer strings are generally more closely modeled on traditional shapes, and form a category of instrument known as small…
"Gusli musicians" by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1899
Boyan playing a gusli, by Nicholas Roerich
Painting of a feast attended by Vladimir the Great and certain of the bogatyri at which a gusli is being played
Man playing a lyre-shaped gusli (Russian: Лирообразные гусли) or rotte (lyre).