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Kokle (; ) or historically kokles (kūkles) is a Latvian plucked string instrument (chordophone) belonging to the Baltic box zither family known as the Baltic psaltery along with Lithuanian kanklės, Estonian kannel, Finnish kantele, and Russian krylovidnye gusli. The first possible kokles related archaeological findings in the territory of modern Latvia are from the 13th century, while the first reliable written information about kokles playing comes from the beginning of the 17th century. The first known kokles tune was notated in 1891, but the first kokles recordings into gramophone records a
Key facts
- Instrument.name
- Kokle
- Instrument.image
- Gunta Niedoliņa kokles.jpg
- Instrument.image_size
- 280px
- Instrument.caption
- Different types of kokles made by Guntis Niedoliņš
- Instrument.background
- string
- Instrument.names
- KokleKūkles, kūkļas, kūkļes, kūklis, kūkļis, kūkle, kūkļe, kūkla and kūkļa (Latgale)
- Instrument.classification
- Chordophone
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs
- 314.122-5
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs_desc
- Diatonic lute-type stringed instrument played using bare hands and fingers
- Instrument.inventors
- Folk instrument
- Instrument.related
- Kanklės, kannel, kantele, gusli
- Instrument.musicians
- Mārtiņš Baumanis, (1864–1934), Namejs Kalniņš, (1871–1957), Māris Muktupāvels, Valdis Muktupāvels, , Latvīte Podiņa, , Jānis Poriķis (1909–1992), (1915–1979; concert kokles)
- Instrument.builders
- (1864–1934), (1871–1957), , Māris Jansons, Eduards Klints, Ģirts Laube, Krists Lazdiņš, Kārlis Lipors, (concert kokles), Jānis Poriķis (1909–1992), Andris Roze, Jānis Rozenbergs, Rihards Valters, Edgars Vilmanis-Meženieks, (1934–1999)
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- musical instrument
- Part of
- Latvian Culture Canon
- Country of origin
- Latvia
- Image
- Gunta Niedoliņa kokles.jpg
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- Hornbostel-Sachs classification
- 314.122-5
- Commons category
- Kokles
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Construction
- Playing
- Tuning
- Types
- Kurzeme kokles
- Latgale kokles
- Zither kokles
- Concert kokles
- In mythology
- In modern music
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
Kokle (; ) or historically kokles (kūkles) is a Latvian plucked string instrument (chordophone) belonging to the Baltic box zither family known as the Baltic psaltery along with Lithuanian kanklės, Estonian kannel, Finnish kantele, and Russian krylovidnye gusli. The first possible kokles related archaeological findings in the territory of modern Latvia are from the 13th century, while the first reliable written information about kokles playing comes from the beginning of the 17th century. The first known kokles tune was notated in 1891, but the first kokles recordings into gramophone records and movies were made in the 1930s. Both kokles and kokles playing are included in the Latvian Culture Canon.
==Etymology == According to Finnish linguist , the name of the instrument, along with the names of most of its neighbouring counterparts (Lithuanian kanklės, Finnish kantele, Estonian kannel and Livonian kāndla), possibly comes from the proto-Baltic form *kantlīs/*kantlēs, which originally meant 'the singing tree', ultimately deriving from the Proto-European root *qan- ('to sing, to sound'). However, Lithuanian ethnologist believes kokles could be derived from the Proto-European root *gan(dh)-, meaning 'a vessel; a haft (of a sword)', suggesting that it may be related to the Russian word gusli.
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