kanklės
Also known as kankles
The kanklės () is a Lithuanian plucked string instrument (chordophone) belonging to the Baltic box zither family known as the Baltic psaltery, along with the Latvian kokles, Estonian kannel, Finnish kantele, and Russian gusli.
Key facts
- Instrument.name
- Kanklės
- Instrument.image
- Įvairias aukštaičių ir žemaičių kanklės (LNM).jpg
- Instrument.image_size
- 300px
- Instrument.caption
- Various Aukštaitian and Samogitian kanklės in the National Museum of Lithuania, made at the end of 19th century – beginning of 20th century
- Instrument.background
- string
- Instrument.names
- Kankliai, kunkliai, kunklaliai, kanklos, kanklys, kanklus, kunkl, kankalai
- Instrument.classification
- Plucked string instrument, chordophone, zither
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs
- 314.122
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs_desc
- Diatonic lute-type stringed instrument
- Instrument.inventors
- Folk instrument
- Instrument.related
- Kokles, kannel, kantele, gusli, zither, psaltery, dulcimer
Article
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- Etymology
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The kanklės () is a Lithuanian plucked string instrument (chordophone) belonging to the Baltic box zither family known as the Baltic psaltery, along with the Latvian kokles, Estonian kannel, Finnish kantele, and Russian gusli.
== Etymology == According to Finnish linguist Eino Nieminen, the name of the instrument, along with the names of most of its neighbouring counterparts (Latvian kokles, Finnish kantele, Estonian kannel and Livonian kāndla), possibly comes from the proto-Baltic form *kantlīs/*kantlēs, which originally meant 'the singing tree', most likely deriving from the Proto-Indo-European root *qan- ('to sing, to sound'; cf. Latin "canto, cantus, canticum", Italian "cantare", French "chanter", English "chant, cantor").