Zither
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An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany. It has fromthirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, whichlies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses bothhands in playing on it.
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A musical instrument consisting of a flat wooden sound box with numerous strings stretched across it, placed horizontally and played with the fingers and a plectrum. It is used especially in central European folk music.
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A zither is a musical instrument of the string family, typically composed of a flat wooden body with numerous strings stretched across it. It is played by strumming or plucking the strings with the fingers or a plectrum, often while the instrument rests on a table or on the players lap. The sound is produced by the strings vibrations resonating within the body of the instrument. Zithers are common in many forms of folk music, particularly in Europe and Asia.
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The zither is a musical string instrument, most commonly found in Slovenia, Austria, Hungary, northwestern Croatia, the southern regions of Germany, alpine Europe and East Asian cultures, including China. The term cithare or sitar, or cithar is also used more broadly, to describe the entire family of stringed instruments in which the strings do not extend beyond the sounding box, including the hammered dulcimer, psaltery, Appalachian dulcimer, guqin, guzheng, koto, gusli, kantele, gayageum, đàn tranh, kanun, autoharp, santoor, yangqin, piano, harpsichord, santur, swarmandal, and others. Zithers can be divided into two classes: fretted and fretless. They are played by strumming or plucking the strings like a guitar.
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zīth′ėr, n. the cithern, the modern representative of the ancient cithara, a popular and common instrument in Tyrol—a flat stringed instrument, having a wooden frame and flat sounding-board with from twenty-nine to forty-two strings, placed on a table or on the knees, the strings played by the right hand, the thumb being armed with a metallic plectrum.—Also Zith′ern. [Ger.]
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