a musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers
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zither::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | cither, zithern |
| Type of | stringed instrument |
| Has types | dulcimer |
Examples of zither
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As few as two or three, or as many as thirteen, depending on the type of zither.
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It looks like a zither, which is to say it resembles nothing you've ever seen.
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Seattle musican Nuri Jeong will perform on the six-string zither geomungo as well.
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He is also remembered as a great tea connoisseur and a zither player and composer.
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The Japanese ichigenkin, a monochord zither, is believed to be derived from the qin.
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The zheng, a form of zither, is most popular in Henan, Chaozhou, Hakka and Shandong.
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Twanging zither music, punctuated by the booming accents of opera gongs.
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Unrelated to the hammered dulcimer, the fretted dulcimer is essentially a modified zither.
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Comedy, like drawing with cheese or playing the zither, is essentially an outsider art.
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- A musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers
- The zither is a musical string instrument, most commonly found in Slovenia, Austria, Hungary citera , northwestern Croatia, the southern regions of Germany, alpine Europe and East Asian cultures, including China. ...
- The family name of all instruments which have strings stretched across a box. Popular in central Europe, In addition to the melody strings, the Concert Zither has a guitar type fretboard (similar to the epinette des vosges), and other models have strings grouped together in chords.
- A family of instruments with strings stretched across a hollow soundbox. The strings may be strummed, struck with hammers, or even bowed. The Dulcimer, psaltery, Ch'in, and Koto are all variations on the zither.
- Plucked harp-like stringed instrument almost never used in bands (OK, you come up with something better starting with "Z").
- A musical instrument consisting of a sound-box with two sets of unstopped strings. One set of strings is tuned to the diatonic, chromatic, or partially-chromatic scale and the other set is tuned to make the various chords in the principal key of the melody strings.
