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@immobile that is an electric kantele signal with a ton of guitar pickups AND a classical guitar piezo pickup AND has no resonating hollow body (he writes, open bottom, so just a single piece of wood carved with no back-resonating audio afai-understand)

that electric kantele makes very significantly less real life sound than you think, the sound you hear in the video is purely the magnetic + vibrating wooden surface signal picked up by the 2 types of pickup, which is then amplified either via something akin to a guitar amp setup, or directly digitally in a PC via a microphone input. the example audio kantele you have given me, is terribly quiet, like an electric guitar, and has a built in amplifier. Essentially, it's a fully electric, non acoustic kantele in the video. So what you posted at me, was a fully electric guitar video, saying "play like this", when i am playing a fully acoustic guitar. Not that i shouldnt play softer, i should and do, just that the example "how-to video" was a mandarin to a lemon lol

mine is recorded by desktop mic so playing loud was a necessity from the getgo to capture my audio well here (in addition to low skill)

i built it in a mix of the soviet style belarussian zither and a traditional kannel, with construction ideas mixed (no metal bar from left to right, but rather a double bridge with metal-saddles each). the sound is rather similar. Pic is my kantele

i need to figure out a way to clamp/fixate my metal bridge pieces well that i put on my kantele stronger so that it doesnt play the unpleasant TRRRRRRRRRR noise (most of it comes from the looseness of the thin metal bridgesaddle at each end of the bridge, really audible on the bass note) whenever i pull the strings. on my test board i just put glue under the saddle of the bridge and it seemed to work, but it was quite soft the glue i used, which was not ideal. Might try using super glue on the real thing. right now the saddle is just a metal rod 100% loose on the bridge wood that i put a slight engraving in so that the saddle slightly slots into it.

YOU DONT TELL TO >ME< TO HOW I PLAY AIGHT? IF YOU WANT ME TO PLAY SOMETHING SOFT ON IT, YOU ASK ME TO PLAY SOMETHING SOFT ON IT. NOT "YOU SHOULDNT PLAY IT LIKE THAT"
YOU SAY: "YOU SHOULD PLAY >THIS< FOR ME, LIKE THAT" and then i will play it and record it for you according to your desire to the best of my ability

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