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10/10/80 Finnish Americans
SI-FP-1980-AR-117
Sound tech- Steve Green
Logger- [?] [Kit] Franklin

Reel #3 Joyce [Dav[s] Kantele 1PM-2
Joyce David [Davis] gave narrative about the instrument with songs scattered throughout

#1. short instrumental
2. Song introduced by history of Kantele
3. Song about the God of the Sea
4. I made myself a willow pipe
5. Piqulind (?) a song about a "little bird"
[2-5 with braces saying big Kantele 4/strings]
5. string Kantele
6. Song on a 5-string kantele
7. Old tune used to accompany singers
8. Song on the big kantele (short) played with instrument "turned around")
9. Polka, played slowly Kikkuri Kakkuri (sp?) Kikkori Kakkuri
10. That evening would come
11. By the stream
Discussion of her 41-string instrument & how it is played
12. Hills of Karellia (Eastern Finland)
13. song about church bells in the village
14. Song of the Peddler (from Karellia)
[braces around Discussion to 14. saying not taped- Rain]
15. My kantele will sound even more sweetly in Heaven than here on earth and sometimes I think I will only get to Heaven because I play the Kantele