Baltic psaltery
Baltic psaltery is a family of related plucked box zithers, psalteries, historically found in the southeast vicinity of the Baltic Sea and played by the Baltic people, Baltic Finns, Volga Finns and northwestern Russians. == Types == Baltic psalteries include: Kanklės (Lithuania) Kantele (Finland, Karelia and Northwest Russia) Kannel (Estonia) Kāndla (Livonian people of Northwest Latvia) Kokles (Latvia) Krez (Udmurt people of Central Russia) Krylovidnye gusli (Northwest Russia) Kusle (Mari people of Central Russia) Harpu (Sápmi) The internationally most known instrument of the family is Finnish kantele, so its name is sometimes used in English to also refer to other Baltic psalteries as well.