Gusli is the oldest East Slavic multi-string plucked instrument, belonging to the zither family, due to its strings being parallel to its resonance board.
It has its relatives in Europe and throughout the world: kantele in Finland, kannel in Estonia, kanklės in Lithuania, kokles in Latvia, Zitter in Germany, citera in Czechia, psalterium in France and so on... Furthermore, the kanun has been found in Arabic countries, and the autoharp, in the United States. It is also related to such ancient instruments as Chinese gu zheng, which has a thousand-year history, and its Japanese relative koto.
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Ivan & Me designed and build 9-stringed Gusli using the CNC-Machines from maple, spruce and rosewood.
Luthiers: Ivan Fesak, Alex Vodennikov
Photo: by Arseniy Karimov
Music: Irina Evsseva
