3. Parts of the kantele
The kantele is a rather simple instrument: there are no frets, no bridge, no nut. Nowadays, the strings are usually attached to metal tuning pegs, but you can also find traditional instruments with carved wooden pegs, and also modern instruments with geared guitar tuners (which is not necessarily an advantage. They may be easier to tune – but if you put your instrument in a gig bag, those tuners get out of tune more easily than "zither pins" do. Here's a contemporary kantele with a "traditional" shape: