Piccies of 10 string Kantele

[The Dong]

Gert van Santen wrote:
> LOL! Good recycling :-)

I regularly steal things from my local recycle point.
Some idiots have approached me as if I was a thief, anyway ;)
Plenty of good stuff is thrown away and recycling, rather than using it, 
is causing more damage to the world than anything else. This fad of 
mandatory recycling with threat of fines etc. is causing MORE rubbish 
and pollution, not less. My only conclusion is that, like the weapons 
and military industries they monopolise, the controlling cronies are 
channelling money into their own businesses.

But, I digress ;)

I also scored a bunch of old tools off ebay, for just over £10. An old 
Stanley brace (always useful) 4 old wooden planes (huge jointing plane, 
smoothing plane, 2 shoulder planes, some spoke shaves and a few 
interesting bits, but useless. The wooden planes are probably 19th 
century and I have already re-soled them with some walnut sheet. My, 
those old irons (blades) work a treat! My modern plane which cost more 
than this lot is a bunch of shit compared with these, the shavings roll 
out in long ribbons ;)

> A thing of beauty. Do you have any recordings yet?

The only recording I have atm (busy on a few jobbies) is of it plugged 
directly into the digimixer with some reverb:

http://www.sphinx.f2s.com/mp3/Kantele01-Guiseppi-Travels.mp3

Just a test of the DIY piezo pickup.
It can be strummed with chords as a backing too.
Acoustically, it's not very loud, bit less than a guitar, but it 
sustains vibrations as if alive ;)