# Kantele

- Date: 19th century
- Medium: Wood, metal
- Classification: Chordophone-Zither-plucked
- Dimensions: Length 90.5 cm., Greatest width 38.7 cm., Depth of soundbox 4.1 cm., Sounding length of longest string 79.0 cm., Sounding length of shortest string 9.8 cm.
- Culture: Finnish
- Credit line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889
- Museum: [The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/501615)
- Rights: [Public domain (Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/mi/web-large/MUS1678.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)