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.

9-stringed kanklės of northeastern Aukštaitija
11-stringed Latgale kokles
6-stringed kannel
10-stringed Finnish kantele
11-stringed Karelian kantele
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