Talk:Kokle

Suggested merge with kankles?
This was suggested to be merged with another article, but I disagree. The words are not synonymous, as the kokle is an instrument indigenous to Latvia, and has followed its own path of development. Though it is related to many other instruments, I see that it is different enough to merit its own page. Any other opinions out there? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Julijagifford (talk • contribs) 12:02, 5 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Concur with Julia; there are many instruments which are morphologically/physically similar, but have very different cultural and historical attributes. Given that nobody has posted support for the merge in nearly a year, and two of us are against the merge, I'm going to go ahead and remove the tag. MatthewVanitas (talk) 15:23, 5 March 2012 (UTC)


 * That said, if we're trying to keep the articles separate, should we not remove the Lithuanian photo and find a Latvian one to replace it with? It's a bit backwards to have separate articles yet share the same photo as though the two are interchangeable. Note that WP has rather strict photo rules, so you'll want to read up (or we can discuss on my Talk page) before getting too far into a photo hunt. MatthewVanitas (talk) 16:21, 5 March 2012 (UTC)


 * And to extend the issue further, the term Kannel (music) (the Estonian variant of the Baltic zither) currently redirects to Kantele (the Finnish version). So might be worth looking into to see if the Estonian version should be split off, or is genuinely pretty much the same instrument and tradition. MatthewVanitas (talk) 16:25, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Good source for kokle politics
This book has a good paragraph regarding the political aspects of the kokle revival during the Soviet era. I can try and add some stuff on this later, but in the meantime here's the resource in case anyone wants to read up and add to this article: http://books.google.com/books?id=7cMg4tdBvhYC&pg=PA82&dq=kokle+latvia&hl=en&sa=X&ei=w9pUT_nJLOHv0gGS6rTQCA&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=kokle%20latvia&f=false. MatthewVanitas (talk) 18:44, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Kokle in legend?
Any good refs about the kokle in legend? Does it appear in the Lacplesis? I did find one mention of ravens playing kokle in Latvian legend, but the source identifies the kokle as a "copper drum" (???). MatthewVanitas (talk) 04:13, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Confusing ariticle title (plural), needs renaming
The name of the instrument is "kokle", singular, "kokles", plural, in modern Latvian. "Kokles" is the historical, archaic, name for the instrument. The article needs to be renamed to "Kokle", with "Kokles" as the redirection. Since this would be a swap, I'd prefer someone do it who isn't guessing at how best to do the switch. VєсrumЬа ►TALK 14:58, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

I changed all the names back from "kokles" to "kokle". I wish that the author who likes to cite himself would stop trying to coin the term. It's misleading as no Latvian ever uses the old form. Especially for concert kokle which has never been called "concert kokles" by anyone. Please rename the article as well. MalvMalv (talk) 21:50, 28 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Your absurd claim that I'm Valdis Muktupāvels himself can be easily proven false by about a dozen Wikipedians that have met me in real life. As for the statement that "no Latvian ever uses the old form" you've already contradicted yourself. You are free to change the name of the article when you've provided enough English references to back it up just as I did with the plural. Plus, Muktupāvels is probably the leading researcher of kokles in Latvia that has published extensively on the subject, so his opinion has to taken into account whether you agree with it or not. --Turaids (talk) 20:26, 4 July 2018 (UTC)


 * There is article lv:Kokle in Latvian Wikipedia. Before here change name from "kokle" to "kokles", need prove it in Latvian Wikipedia also, but still hasn't did it.- Treisijs (talk) 23:28, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Less talk, more references.. –Turaids (talk) 22:34, 4 April 2019 (UTC)