Editing Kantele (section)

===Concert kantele===
[[File:Concert kantele.jpg|thumb|300px|Koistinen 38-stringed concert kantele]]
A modern '''concert kantele''' can have up to 40 strings. The playing positions of the concert kantele and the small kantele are reversed: for a small kantele, the longest, low-pitched strings are furthest away from the musician's body, while for a concert kantele, this side of the instrument is nearest, and the short, high-pitched strings are the furthest away. Concert versions have a switch mechanism (similar to semitone levers on a modern [[folk harp]]) for making sharps and flats, an innovation introduced by [[Paul Salminen]] in the 1920s.<ref name="Ramnarine2003">{{cite book|first=Tina K. |last=Ramnarine |title=Ilmatar's Inspirations: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Changing Soundscapes of Finnish Folk Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WfeVkGE2hX8C&pg=PA147|access-date=13 June 2012|date=1 August 2003|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-70402-9|page=147}}</ref>