Word of the week: A singular noun despite the last letter, this is a lap zither instrument of Lithuania, part of the Baltic box zither family known as the Baltic psaltery, along with the Latvian kokles, Estonian kannel, Finnish kantele, and Russian gusli, and with a name thought to originally mean ‘singing tree’.
Read moreWord of the week: kanklės
Archive early 20th-century photographs of players of, clockwise from top left, the Lithuanian kanklės, followed by equivalents showing Latvian, Estonian, and Finnish folk musicians, all part of the Baltic psaltery family