Collector and material list

Material set: Ahti Rytkönen phonograms from Kymenlaakso, 1929

Number of cylinders: 23 pcs.

Content description: Narrations and animal calls

Regions: Iitin Koskenniska, Mankola ja Vuolenkoski

Akseli Gallen-Kallela’s parlograms from 1916, 1920 and 1921

Number of cylinders: 23 kpl.

Content description: Tradition from White Karelia and home recordings

Region: Recorded at Ruovesi

Material set: Phonograms from Armas Launis’ trip to Border Karelia, 1905

Number of cylinders: 15 pcs.

Content description: Traditions, laments, kantele playing, shepherd call songs and rune singing

Regions: Suistamo, Ilomantsi

Material set: Phonograms from Armas Launis’ trip to Ingria, 1906

Number of cylinders: 100 pcs.

Content description: Rune songs, laments and birch trumpet playing

Regions: Ingrian villages of Säätinä in Soikkola, and Koskina, Mäkkylä, Vistino, Hevaa, Lenttinen, Murtove, Yhimäki in Tyrö, and Kolkanpää and Savimäki

Material set: Phonograms from Armas Launis’ trip to Petsamo, 1922

Number of cylinders: 25 kpl.

Content description: Yoiks and Skolt Sámi leuʹdds

Regions: Kuets”Yarvi and Boris Gleb

Material set: Armas Otto Väisänen’s phonograms from Rantasalmi, 1913

Number of cylinders: 6 pcs.

Content description: Pelimanni music played with a violin

Region: Rantasalmi

Material set: Armas Otto Väisänen’s phonograms from Rääkkylä, 1913

Number of cylinders: 1 pc.

Content description: Pelimanni music played with a violin

Region: Rääkkylä

Material set: Armas Otto Väisänen’s phonograms from Tohmajärvi, 1913

Number of cylinders: 3 pcs.

Content description: Pelimanni music played with a violin

Region: Tohmajärvi

Material set: Armas Otto Väisäsen’s phonograms from Savonranta, 1913 and 1914

Number of cylinders: 16 pcs.

Content description: Rune songs, herd calling, other folk songs and dance tunes played with a violin and bowed lyre

Region: Savonranta

Material set: Armas Otto Väisänen’s phonograms from Ingria, 1914

Number of cylinders: 42 pcs.

Content description: includes Ingrian and Russian shepherd and dance tunes played with different instruments (birch trumpet, truba, soittu, willow flute, balalaika). The collection also includes laments and Ingrian songs

Region: Inkeri (Kirjamo, Laukaansuu, Joenperä, Risumäki, Koskinen, Säätinä, Ruutsia, Tarinaisi, Kattila)

Material set: Armas Otto Väisänen’s phonograms from Estonia (Kraasna, Russia), 1914

Number of cylinders: 5 pcs.

Content description: Recordings of weddings, funerals and “washing”

Region: Kraasna, Russia

Material set: Armas Otto Phonograms from Väisänen’s trip to Mordva, 1914

Number of cylinders: 2 pcs.

Content description: Folk songs and nūdi double whistle playing

Region: Mordva, Russia

Material set: Armas Otto Väisänen’s phonograms from Impilahti, 1915

Number of cylinders: 7 pcs.

Content description: Rune songs, laments and other folk songs as well as incantations

Region: Impilahti

Material set: Armas Otto Väisänen’s phonograms from Kaukola, 1915

Number of cylinders: 5 pcs.

Content description: Goat horn playing

Region: Kaukola

Material set: Phonograms from Armas Otto Väisänen’s trip to White Karelia, 1915

Number of cylinders: 51 pcs.

Content description: includes herding calls, White Karelian yoiks, rune songs, other folk songs, Russian songs and pajatus (a form of rapid talk) as well as shepherd call songs played with a and birch trumpet and willow flute

Region: Knäzöi, Järvenpää, Ruva, Soukelo, Oulanka, Vartiolampi, Laitasalmi, Sohjanansuu, Kokkosalmi, Kiestinki, Lohivaara, Vaarakylä, Suurijärvi, Ohta, Häme, Röhö, Pistonsuu, Vuonninen, Jyvälahti, Uhtua, Vuokkiniemi

Material set: Armas Otto Väisänen’s phonograms from Ladoga Karelia, 1915

Number of cylinders: 2 pcs.

Content description: Includes a Karelian yoik, other folk songs and herding calls

Region: Sortavala, Impilahti

Material set: Armas Otto Väisänen’s phonograms from Border Karelia, 1916

Number of cylinders: 36 pcs.

Content description: Includes laments, rune songs, other folk songs, herding calls as well as playing a bowed lyre, kantele, willow flute, wooden horn and violin

Region: Sortavala, Impilahden Koirinojan, Hunttilan ja Koivuselän kylät, Salmi sekä Suistamo

Material set: Parlograms from Armas Otto Väisänen’s trip to Vepsä

Number of cylinders: 2 pcs.

Content description: Playing the accordion, kantele and horn as well as herding calls

Region: Vepsä

Material set: Parlograms from Armas Otto Väisänen’s trip to Border Karelia, 1917

Number of cylinders: 63 pcs.

Content description: Laments (for weddings and funerals), rune songs, incantations, playing the kantele, other folk songs, Russian songs as well as shepherd tunes played with a bowed lyre

Region: Suistamo, Pielisjärvi, Korpiselkä ja Suojärvi

Material set: Phonograms from Armas Otto Väisänen’s trip to Olonets, 1919

Number of cylinders: 53 pcs.

Content description: Includes laments, rune songs, other folk songs and playing the kantele

Region: Salmi, Vitelen Kaivanon, Suurmäen ja Perttijärven kylät sekä Kappu

Material set: Parlograms from Armas Otto Väisänen’s trip to Border Karelia, 1920

Number of cylinders: 15 pcs.

Content description: Includes laments, rune songs and other folk songs

Region: Suojärvi, Suistamo, Jängäjärvi ja Soudarvi

Material set: Parlograms from Armas Otto Väisänen’s trip to Estonia, 1921

Number of cylinders: 18 pcs.

Content description: Includes laments, rune songs and playing shepherd’s instruments and the kantele

Region: Tartto, Setumaa (Siimaski, Obinitsa, Hilana, Polovinna, Hiirumaa)

Material set: Armas Otto Väisänen’s parlograms from the refugee camp in Kyminlinna, 1922

Number of cylinders: 20 pcs.

Content description: Includes White Karelian yoiks, laments and rune songs

Region: Laitasalmi, Käpäli, Sohjanansuu, Kenttijärvi, Porarvi ja Kokkosalmi

Material set: Armas Otto Väisänen’s Phonograms from a trip to Estonia, 1922

Number of cylinders: 60 pcs.

Content description: Includes laments and rune songs

Region: Tartto, Petseri, Simask, Obinitsa, Kolovinna, Hilana, Melso, Helb, Piusa, Ruhokiila, Muhu ja Svonsa

Material set: Phonograms from Armas Otto Väisänen’s trip to Petsamo, 1926

Number of cylinders: 20 pcs.

Content description: Skolt Sámi leuʹdds

Region: Petsamo (Algasjärvi, Päistjärvi)

Material set: Armas Otto Väisänen’s parlograms from Border Karelia, 1927

Number of cylinders: 16 pcs.

Content description: Includes rune songs and laments

Region: Ilomantsin Kuolismaa, Liusvaara ja Vuottoniemi

Material set: Armas Otto Väisänen’s parlograms from the Helsinki Song Festival, 1931

Number of cylinders: 18 pcs.

Content description: Rune songs, laments and playing the bowed lyre, violin and shepherd’s instruments

Region: Kalajoki, Suojärvi, Viron Inkeri ja Seutumaa

Material set: Armas Otto Väisänen’s parlograms from the Sámi culture event in Helsinki, 1936

Number of cylinders: 1 pc.

Content description: Yoiks

Region: Inari ja Sodankylä

Material set: Armas Otto Väisänen’s phonograms and parlograms of folk singers, pelimanni musicians and home, 1920–1956

Number of cylinders: 119 pcs.

Content description: Folk music sung and played with various instruments in different parishes The collection also include’s Armas Otto Väisänen’s home recordings and a “phonograph guest book”, recollections etc.

Asko Pulkkisen fonogrammit

Material set: Asko Pulkkinens phonograms from Savo and Border Karelia, 1914

Number of cylinders: 22 pcs.

Content description: Songs and pelimanni music played with a violin

Region: Mäntyharju, Heinävesi, Rantasalmi, Rautalampi, Sortavala, Suistamo, Suonenjoki ja Sääminki

Material set: Aukusti Robert Niemi’s phonograms from Lithuania, 1912

Number of cylinders: 86 pcs.

Content description: Songs

Regions: Rodživiliškis, Valkininkai ja Mareinkenys

Material set: Elma Mikkola’s phonograms from Central Finland, 1926

Lieriöiden lukumäärä: 7 kpl.

Content description: Songs

Regions: Konginkangas, Sumiainen ja Viitasaari

Material set: Heikki Ojansuu’s phonograms

Number of cylinders: 3 pcs.

Content description: Narrations and songs We also have examples of the Kraasna dialect of the Estonian language.

Material set: Helmi Helminen’s Konginkangas phonograms from 1930

Number of cylinders: 19 pcs.

Content description: Samples of traditions and dialects

Region: Konginkangas

Material set: Iina Seppänen’s phonograms, 1928

Number of cylinders: 8 kpl.

Content description: Songs and pelimanni music played with a violin

Material set: Kai Donners’ phonograms from Siberia, 1912–1914

Number of cylinders: 37 pcs.

Content description: Traditions of distant relative peoples in Siberia

Regions: Makovskoje, Taz and Tymsk

Phonograms of Lauri Kettunen’s Suomen murteet (Dialects of Finland) publication, 1914–1930

Number of cylinders: 103 pcs.

Content description: Dialect samples, traditions, autobiographical narration

Regions: Parishes in Finland, Värmländ, Sweden, and Ingria, Estonia

Material set: Phonograms from Lauri Kettunen’s trip to Vepsä

Number of cylinders: 58 pcs.

Content description: Traditions, songs and other narrations

Regions: Arskaht, Kortlaht, Sidarf, Tšaigl, Vaugedjärv

Material set: Phonograms from Lauri Kettunen’s trip to Livonia in 1920

Number of cylinders: 16 pcs.

Content description: Traditions and narrations

Regions: Lūž, Īra, Koštrōg, Kuolka

Material set: Lauri Kettunen’s Livonian phonograms

Number of cylinders: 11 pcs.

Content description: Songs etc.

Material set: Lauri Kettunen’s phonograms from White Karelia, 1922

Number of cylinders: 12 pcs.

Content description: Rune songs

Regions: Vuokkiniemi, Paadene, Tunkua. Recorded in Turkinsaari in the Karelian isthmus

Material set: Lauri Kettunen’s phonograms from Tartu, 1923

Number of cylinders: 4 pcs.

Material set: Phonograms from the trip to Värmland, 1935

Number of cylinders: 13 pcs.

Content description: Traditions and narrations

Regions: Värmland, Sweden

Material set: Phonograms from Lauri Kettunen’s trips to Votia, 1915, 1922–1923 and 1932

Number of cylinders: 58 pcs.

Content description: Traditions and other narrations

Regions: Ikäpäivä, Joenperä, Kattila, Ljuuditsa, Pontilova ja Pummala

Material set: Lauri Kettunen’s phonograms, 1937

Number of cylinders: 2 pcs.

Material set: Lyyli Kokkonen’s phonograms from Juuka, 1932

Number of cylinders: 2 pcs.

Regions: Juuka

Material set: Pentti Summa’s phonograms from Pyhäjärvi Vpl (Otradnoye, Priozersky District, Leningrad Oblast), 1932

Number of cylinders: 8 pcs.

Content description: Songs and pelimanni music played with a violin

Region: Pyhäjärvi Vpl (Otradnoye, Priozersky District, Leningrad Oblast)

Material set: Toivo Kaukoranta’s parlograms from 1928

Number of cylinders: 6 kpl.

Content description: Tundra Nenets’ traditions and songs

Region: Recorded in Helsinki

Material set: Toivo Lehtisalo’ phonograms from Siberia, 1911–1912

Number of cylinders: 31 pcs.

Content description: Siberian Nenets’ traditions and songs

Regions: Obdorsk (present day Salekhard), Taz and Pur regions, Mezen

Material set: Veikko Ruoppila’s phonograms from Pyhäjärvi Vpl (Otradnoye, Priozersky District, Leningrad Oblast), 1933

Number of cylinders: 2 pcs.

Regions: Pyhäjärvi (Vpl.)

Material set: Lauri Ruoppila’s phonograms from Lemi, 1933

Number of cylinders: 4 pcs.

Regions: Lemi

Material set: Väinö Salminen’s phonograms from Sweden and Northern Lapland, 1905

Number of cylinders: 8 pcs.

Content description: Yoiks, songs and incantations

Region: Swedish Lapland, Narvik and Tromssa regions as well as Värmland and Östermark

Material set: Väinö Salminen’s phonograms from Border Karelia, 1906

Number of cylinders: 9 pcs.

Content description: Rune songs, laments and kantele playing

Region: Suistamo