stick zithers), tube zithers, raft zithers, board zithers (includes box zithers, ground zithers and harp zithers), trough zithers and frame zithers.: 20–21 ...

The guitar zither (also chord zither, fretless zither, mandolin zither or harp zither) is a musical instrument consisting of a sound-box with two sets...

The tube zither is a stringed musical instrument in which a tube functions both as an instrument's neck and its soundbox. As the neck, it holds strings...

Drone zithers or droned zithers are stringed instruments of the zither family that have few (sometimes only one) melodic strings and a greater number of...

The box zither is a class of stringed instrument in the form of a trapezoid-shaped or rectangular, hollow box. The strings of the box zither are either...

An autoharp or chord zither is a string instrument belonging to the zither family. It uses a series of bars individually configured to mute all strings...

Trough zithers are a group of African stringed instruments or chordophones whose members resemble wooden bowls, pans, platters, or shallow gutters with...

(Chinese: 古筝; pinyin: gǔzhēng; lit. 'ancient zheng'), is a Chinese plucked zither. The modern guzheng commonly has 21, 25, or 26 strings, is 64 inches (1...

Bar zither is class of musical instruments (subset of zither) within the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system for a type of simple chordophone (stringed...

A raft zither is a group of single-cord tube zithers, connected together to form a "raft". Tube zithers use a tube as a platform to hold a string (either...

archaic form) is a fretboard-less box zither (a simple chordophone) and is considered the archetype of the zither and dulcimer. Plucked keyboard instruments...

Latvian plucked string instrument (chordophone) belonging to the Baltic box zither family known as the Baltic psaltery along with Lithuanian kanklės, Estonian...

to better understand Dante. One of his poems, Listening to Louis Chen's Zither, was selected into the Chinese textbooks for secondary school students in...

Ancient musical instruments evolved into many variations, such as lutes, zithers and arched harps. The many regional designs have different names such as...

Look up zhu in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Zhu or ZHU may refer to: Zhu (surname), common Chinese surnames Zhu River, or Pearl River, in southern...

The đàn tranh (Vietnamese: [ɗâːn ʈajŋ̟], 彈箏) or đàn thập lục is a plucked zither of Vietnam, based on the Chinese guzheng, from which are also derived the...

Bradford Reed - Zither (tracks: 2, 4, 8, 13 & 14) David Corter - Zither (tracks: 8, 9, 12, 13) Elvis Lederer - Zither (track: 1) & Zither [Pressaphonic](track:...

(China) Zhongruan (China) Zhu (China) Zither Alpine zither (Central Europe) Concert zither (United States) Guitar zither Berimbau (Brazil) Cimbalom (Hungary...

made of two characters, yuè (月 "moon") and qín (琴 "stringed instrument, zither"). Its name in Korean (wolgeum) Japanese (gekkin) mean the same thing, and...

【康熙字典】. Folio 28. John Thompson on the Guqin Silk String Zither (2005) Qin: Lute or Zither? (http://www.silkqin.com/11misc/lute.htm , 29 July 2006) Melvin...

Bavaria. Because of his interest he received the nickname Zither-Maxl. He himself played the zither and also composed music for it. During a visit by his...

bầu (Vietnamese: [ɗàːn.ɓə̀w]; "gourd zither"; Chữ Nôm: 彈匏), also called độc huyền cầm (獨絃琴, "one-string zither"; the name is only used by the Jing ethnicity...

guitar, e-bow, guitar, harpsichord, zither Larry Heinemann - bass, chapman stick, guitar, pressaphonic, tubulum, zither Todd Perlmutter - drums, narrator...

The ground zither (also French: cithare en terre) is a simple string instrument. In one Vietnamese variant one may use a long bamboo stick resting its...

3 May 1943) is an American multi-instrumentalist specializing in piano, zither and mbira. His albums include the 1980 release Ambient 3: Day of Radiance...

The koto (箏 or 琴) is a Japanese plucked half-tube zither instrument, and the national instrument of Japan. It is derived from the Chinese zheng and se...

伽倻琴) – A long zither with 12 strings; modern versions may have 13, 15, 17, 18, 21, 22, or 25 strings Geomungo (거문고) – A fretted bass zither with six to...

dulcimer (many variant names; see below) is a fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings, originally played in the Appalachian...

made from bamboo. The rudra veena is classified either as a stick zither or tube zither in the Sachs-Hornbostel classification system. The veena's body...

four basic subcategories, "zithers, lutes, lyres and harps." Zithers include stick zithers such as the musical bow, tube zithers with a tube as the resonator...