Playing the kanklės at school as an educational method of sustaining the national spirit

Bibliogr. str. galeThe ancient kanklės (a type of zithers) are traditional musical instruments with the balts (Lithuanians and Latvians), Baltic Finns (Estonians, Suomi, Karelians, Vodians, Izhorians and Vepsians) and north-west Russians. Kanklės are spread in a very large territory that nearly coincides with the cultural area of the early Neolithic Narva period (4000 B. C.)Vytauto Didžiojo universitetasŠvietimo akademij