Vaka vanha Väinämöinen, tietäjä iän-ikuinen, oli veistävä venoista, uutta purtta puuhoava, nenässä utuisen niemen, päässä saaren terhenisen... too bad i dont remember the rest.
So this is what Väinämöinen was playing on his kantele in Scroodge's adventure comic "The quest for Kalevala"! It has been 10 years! Aaah the nostalgia😢
As a folk singer my heart cries of happiness for something this beautiful, thank you! Upean herkkää ja tunteikasta soittoa, soittanet syntyperäisen suomalaisen veroisesti...
@SageLuka This is the original version of Kalevala and the origins are from Finland. Back in Lönrot's days, lot's of scandinavian people used to sing their stories in poems because it's much easier to remember stories if you make it into a poem, Lönrot didn't create Väinämöinen or other people and stories told in Kalevala, he listened the poems, wrote them down and published them in a book which he named Kalevala after Karjala where he heard the poems
wow, there isn't really much to say after hearing this. Well done, not really familiar with kantele but this is something different than anything I have heard before.
This is something I listened to when I was a baby and a small child, because my mother used to sing or to hum this and other similar songs to me. When I hear this today, it goes directly into my heart, and makes me cry. I feel very thankful to my mother for keeping this tradition alive by passing it to me. I will pass it on to my children.
You are truly a great player, your videos inspired me when i started to play kantele myself and i still could watch them again and again. Greetings from Finland!
@Simpson654 The definition for it is broader then that and in no way does the amount of strings play part in the definition as even traditionally, they ranged from 5 to 15, high tension, strings. Trough development of the instrument that has expanded to amounts of even 40 strings and a felt stopping bar as can be seen in the video. Which is by distinction, called a concert kantele.
Yes, it totally is a finnish song since our national epic, Kalevala, is meant to be read by singing the text with this melody. I dunno about the origins of the melody though, it could've come from abroad centuries ago. This version of it, by the way, isn't the original one. The notes go a little differently so this sounds a little bit more sad... And way more complicated. It's beautiful, though! ^_^
Hallo, die org. Kantele wurde von einem Prof. und seiner Frau vor ca. 49 Jahren gespielt und war aus historischen Epos-Kalevala Elementen aufgebaut und diese hier kommt etwas nahe, aber vom Klang nicht das Gleiche. Eine echte alte Kantele wird aus den Knochen eines Fisches gebaut. Eric Hoyer
This is beautiful! Thank you for you video and you skill with an old instrument... I think one set or words for this wen't "tulin pitkin Turuntieta, Hame-en vanhaa harkatieta"... Wonderful music with such a challenging instrument! Greetings from Helsinki! Thank you!
When I listen it,I feel something I cant tell,It's like..stg in my brain dramasitation the War scenes,dead people and their stories..Ruins..hungry people and their childs..crying...fathers come home dead...mums crying childs crying...knights fighting for their bigs with honor...IDK..stg like that
Does anyone know how to position your fingers on a large Kantele. I am thinking of buying one but I am used to playing the 10 string and wonder how I am going to play the 19 string. Any help would be much appreciated!
vittu kun epäonnistun.. Hai!! Arigattonaa.. Panda ko Panda ko Panda. Tonari no Tororo Ikke.. Okaasaa!!!! Hai! Pandakopandakopanda!! Futureboy Conan. Kiitos arrigattoo nii ,, ni masee ;) Lausutaan hieman samalla tavalla.. P.S. Älkää tappako itseänne.. Me suomalaiset(kin) olemme jo hiukan oppineet epäonnistumaan.
Very beautiful indeed. I guess that the lever you throw part way through is to change, for example, a flat note to a natural note. What is the purpose of the wooden plate below your left hand?
its belly out of hard days its soundboard from endless woes its strings gathered from torment and it pegs from other ills truly, they lie they talk other nonsense.
+Gustav Louw Most of Kalevala poems are sang with this melody. Just like Scandinavian vikings also finnish people used to tell stories by singing poems and Kalevala was one of those finnish mythologies which Elias Lönrot wrote down and made a book nameing it Kalevala. Kalevala isn't just a story, it is ancient finnish mythology based on pagan religion in Finland untill most people converted to christianity
+Ville Tuuras It's amazing that the old melodies were preserved. As a swede I wish we could heve kept our viking songs too. Christians just ruin everything.
KungKras Swedish weren't really vikings but they had contacts with Vikings and some vikings married with swedish people. If you want to search vikings, you need to go to Norway and Denmark. You still can find those viking traditions from Sweden. Santa claus for example is actually old viking tradition to worship their god of War Odin and only christian tradition on Christmas is giving presents and honoring the birth of christ, otherwise it is actually viking holiday here on north. Kalevala is actually also part of Swedish mythology since paganism spread from Sweden to Finland. I think you are familiar with story of evil witch who wakes up monster which can destroy the world over magical instrument which could create endless ammounts of Gold, salt, gray and iron or silver (can't remember which). Or those evil water people who lure maidens whom must spend eternity amongst the water people if they marry one. Also there were water trolls who pulled children who went too close to lakes under water. All those are Scandinavian myths.
Ville Tuuras Swedes were just as much vikings as danes and norwegians. The other guys went to England and Iceland while we went to the east, raiding and trading in Russia and becoming the varangian guard in constantinople. There are even swedish laws preserved that deals with inheritance if someone is in greece.
+Ville Tuuras You have really misinterpreted the word "viking". It is not used to describe the attacks on England for example, wich most people believe. Raiding, raping, violent creatures from scandinavia. The swedes (probably svear) certainly went viking, since they probably travelled more and longer distances than the recorded norwegians and danes. Ibn Fadlans meeting was probably with swedes, most of them anyway. We surely mixed up, and I think there were just as many swedes (probably götar) in the great heathen army as norwegians and danes.
+Aikidoka6666 Just search "kalevala hymn harpsichord" and you should be able to get it. The first result is I think intended to serve this purpose. If you have trouble, let me know. I went through precisely the same thing yesterday morning, and it shouldn't be much trouble to write down what I learned.
Im buying a 11 string kantele this month and i feel like a basic person after seeing this. Does anybody know how much does a kantele like this one cost?
as a Finn I'm crying tears of joy
Me too. As a Hungarian. :)
I join as Karelian
As a Latvian, I join as well. Though our version of the instrument is a little different and has its own name.
As a Belarusian
as ukrainian
Vaka vanha Väinämöinen, tietäjä iän-ikuinen, oli veistävä venoista, uutta purtta puuhoava, nenässä utuisen niemen, päässä saaren terhenisen... too bad i dont remember the rest.
So this is what Väinämöinen was playing on his kantele in Scroodge's adventure comic "The quest for Kalevala"! It has been 10 years!
Aaah the nostalgia😢
As a folk singer my heart cries of happiness for something this beautiful, thank you! Upean herkkää ja tunteikasta soittoa, soittanet syntyperäisen suomalaisen veroisesti...
Nothing more beautiful than to feel the pride of ancient heritage well up as tears in your eyes.
imagine centering your whole identity over your lame ass dead ancestors lol
How on earth can so old music be so good and emotional. Absolutely fantastic!
i'm from finland too, my mother used to sing / hum this song to me when i was little :)
thank you, this was beautiful !
The Finnish kantele sounds really wonderful!
Definitely one of my favorite instruments.
@SageLuka This is the original version of Kalevala and the origins are from Finland. Back in Lönrot's days, lot's of scandinavian people used to sing their stories in poems because it's much easier to remember stories if you make it into a poem, Lönrot didn't create Väinämöinen or other people and stories told in Kalevala, he listened the poems, wrote them down and published them in a book which he named Kalevala after Karjala where he heard the poems
В каждой ноте моя душа. Что за волшебство???
Какая совершенная и грустная мелодия бескрайняя. Трогает самую душу❤❤❤❤
Favourite song. Thank you for sharing
very nice
The Melody of Kalevala is ancient and archaic. We used it to memorize our folklore poems.
How lovely 💚 and melancholic
Greetings from Ukraine! Very beautiful performance
So beautiful!!💙🎶🎶🎶
Aivan upea ❤️
wow, there isn't really much to say after hearing this. Well done, not really familiar with kantele but this is something different than anything I have heard before.
This is something I listened to when I was a baby and a small child, because my mother used to sing or to hum this and other similar songs to me. When I hear this today, it goes directly into my heart, and makes me cry. I feel very thankful to my mother for keeping this tradition alive by passing it to me. I will pass it on to my children.
I remember my late father trying to play this song as she is . Not very easy to play.
Very very good Job 👍👍👍👍👍
I keep coming back to this amazing performance, thank you.
素敵な音です💓
This is beautiful and kind of melancholic
I cant stop watching it. Its to beautiful
Great job!! Beautiful - hyvin soitettu, kiitos!
Impressive kantele! And skillful playing, too.
May Väinämöinen take care of your every song!
merci 1000 fois ... magnifique.
Peaceful music and good sleep music
You are truly a great player, your videos inspired me when i started to play kantele myself and i still could watch them again and again. Greetings from Finland!
Старый верный Вайнямёйнен говорил слова такие, и такие молвил речи...
on ne peut rester insensible à l'extraordinaire atmosphère qui se dégage de votre musique
Love love love this!
Incredible! What an awesome instrument!
Tämä on niin kaunis kantele.
You have rekindled my interest in Kalevala /bow
I love this instrument...and the poem too... You are aweasome... !!! Bravo!!!
Great! Beautiful!
Beautiful! Thank you so much.
Really amazing!
@SageLuka Wikipedia says the melody could be even millenia old.
very well played, domo arrigatou
greetings from finland
Do love the sound of that
すてきな. アップ ありがとう~
Very talentedly played. Very good.
Kuulostaapa hyvältä.
Sounds so good.
とてもよいですね。
very nice, it resonates in my soul
@phii463
and I forget to mention... thank you by playing it.
It is so magical.
keep that very good!!!!
You are my hero!
nice ... i like it ...
I would like to learn to play this.. it's beautiful.
@Simpson654 The definition for it is broader then that and in no way does the amount of strings play part in the definition as even traditionally, they ranged from 5 to 15, high tension, strings. Trough development of the instrument that has expanded to amounts of even 40 strings and a felt stopping bar as can be seen in the video. Which is by distinction, called a concert kantele.
Beautiful. Do you still play the kantele? How many strings did you start with? 5, 6, 11?
wow nice
Who could object to this music of my people!
wow!
it's so great :)
well done. best regards from finland.
Yes, it totally is a finnish song since our national epic, Kalevala, is meant to be read by singing the text with this melody. I dunno about the origins of the melody though, it could've come from abroad centuries ago. This version of it, by the way, isn't the original one. The notes go a little differently so this sounds a little bit more sad... And way more complicated. It's beautiful, though! ^_^
Hallo, die org. Kantele wurde von einem Prof. und seiner Frau vor ca. 49 Jahren gespielt und war aus historischen Epos-Kalevala Elementen aufgebaut und diese hier kommt etwas nahe, aber vom Klang nicht das Gleiche. Eine echte alte Kantele wird aus den Knochen eines Fisches gebaut. Eric Hoyer
This is beautiful! Thank you for you video and you skill with an old instrument... I think one set or words for this wen't "tulin pitkin Turuntieta, Hame-en vanhaa harkatieta"...
Wonderful music with such a challenging instrument!
Greetings from Helsinki! Thank you!
Wish I could play kantele =/ (but then again, wish I could play any instrument... never learned)
Beautiful
Helkkarin hyvä! (great)
My sole is complete
Beautiful! I am getting a 10 string kantele, but now I am jealous of yours, with all the switches and the strings.
Give it a bit of practice, and you can make 10 strings sound just as good as 38!
May Väinämöinen bring music to your house!
mmmmmmmmmm... kaunista
Красиво. А мелодия напоминает белорусскую "Перепёлочку".
When I listen it,I feel something I cant tell,It's like..stg in my brain dramasitation the War scenes,dead people and their stories..Ruins..hungry people and their childs..crying...fathers come home dead...mums crying childs crying...knights fighting for their bigs with honor...IDK..stg like that
now i know where ensiferum got it.
Does anyone know how to position your fingers on a large Kantele. I am thinking of buying one but I am used to playing the 10 string and wonder how I am going to play the 19 string.
Any help would be much appreciated!
I want this instrument
kalevala ja katele
Haha, I was thinking the exact same thing while listening to this xD
Which is the title of this piece?
wow that was beautiful.,,really relaxing.I can see how you damp the strings, are you changing the key with those levers? I'm fascinated! ....Kiitos!
hei
You are my Vainamoinen!!! If you try mix the poem and make a vid for all of us!!!
vittu kun epäonnistun.. Hai!!
Arigattonaa..
Panda ko Panda ko Panda.
Tonari no Tororo
Ikke.. Okaasaa!!!!
Hai!
Pandakopandakopanda!!
Futureboy Conan.
Kiitos arrigattoo nii ,, ni masee ;)
Lausutaan hieman samalla tavalla..
P.S. Älkää tappako itseänne.. Me suomalaiset(kin) olemme jo hiukan oppineet epäonnistumaan.
Ach... Kalevala...
best 2:36 of my life
Where is the partiture for this?
Do you by any chance have sheet music for this song?
beutiful! is it hard to learn to play?
Klassikko Suomessa
Who could possibly dislike this? Shame on you!
Very beautiful indeed. I guess that the lever you throw part way through is to change, for example, a flat note to a natural note. What is the purpose of the wooden plate below your left hand?
wooden plate is called a damping board that can mute the sound.
its belly out of hard days
its soundboard from endless woes
its strings gathered from torment
and it pegs from other ills
truly, they lie they talk other nonsense.
Why is the description in Japanese?
Perfect. Ensiferum did this one well, too.
+Gustav Louw Most of Kalevala poems are sang with this melody. Just like Scandinavian vikings also finnish people used to tell stories by singing poems and Kalevala was one of those finnish mythologies which Elias Lönrot wrote down and made a book nameing it Kalevala.
Kalevala isn't just a story, it is ancient finnish mythology based on pagan religion in Finland untill most people converted to christianity
+Ville Tuuras It's amazing that the old melodies were preserved.
As a swede I wish we could heve kept our viking songs too.
Christians just ruin everything.
KungKras
Swedish weren't really vikings but they had contacts with Vikings and some vikings married with swedish people.
If you want to search vikings, you need to go to Norway and Denmark.
You still can find those viking traditions from Sweden.
Santa claus for example is actually old viking tradition to worship their god of War Odin and only christian tradition on Christmas is giving presents and honoring the birth of christ, otherwise it is actually viking holiday here on north.
Kalevala is actually also part of Swedish mythology since paganism spread from Sweden to Finland.
I think you are familiar with story of evil witch who wakes up monster which can destroy the world over magical instrument which could create endless ammounts of Gold, salt, gray and iron or silver (can't remember which).
Or those evil water people who lure maidens whom must spend eternity amongst the water people if they marry one.
Also there were water trolls who pulled children who went too close to lakes under water.
All those are Scandinavian myths.
Ville Tuuras
Swedes were just as much vikings as danes and norwegians. The other guys went to England and Iceland while we went to the east, raiding and trading in Russia and becoming the varangian guard in constantinople. There are even swedish laws preserved that deals with inheritance if someone is in greece.
+Ville Tuuras You have really misinterpreted the word "viking". It is not used to describe the attacks on England for example, wich most people believe. Raiding, raping, violent creatures from scandinavia. The swedes (probably svear) certainly went viking, since they probably travelled more and longer distances than the recorded norwegians and danes. Ibn Fadlans meeting was probably with swedes, most of them anyway. We surely mixed up, and I think there were just as many swedes (probably götar) in the great heathen army as norwegians and danes.
So nice! Doomo arigatou gozaimashta! Kiitos!
I have a question: Is it really a 5/4 - time rythm?
Yes, I wrote it down in 5/4 and it makes sense like that
Please, where could i possibly find piano sheet music of this hauntin score??
+Aikidoka6666 Just search "kalevala hymn harpsichord" and you should be able to get it. The first result is I think intended to serve this purpose. If you have trouble, let me know. I went through precisely the same thing yesterday morning, and it shouldn't be much trouble to write down what I learned.
Yes! i found the keyboard transcription...Thank you so much!! :D
Amorphis brought me here
Panda kopanda trailer
Can this be played on a 11 string kantele?
Im buying a 11 string kantele this month and i feel like a basic person after seeing this. Does anybody know how much does a kantele like this one cost?
€7000 sounds more like the price of a bloody Sampo man.
Check e.g. here on the site of Timo Väänänen, of Loituma/Ievan polkka fame: www.kantele.net/category/kanteletori/myydaan
Suomen vanhimmalle vesien saastuttajalle omistettu kappale .Hienosti soittettu :D
Kyseiselle melodialle on tuhansia sanoituksia.
Это русские гусли, песня называется "дрема"