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| | zither on Encyclopedia.com |
 | | ZITHER [zither], stringed musical instrument, derived from the psaltery and the dulcimer. | | | Self-taught on the zither, Anton Karas was playing in a Vienna tavern when British director Carol Reed heard him and decided to have him score and play for the soundtrack | | | Celestial Airs of Antiquity: Music of the Seven-String Zither of China.(Review) |
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| | zither - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about zither |
| | The modern concert zither has up to 45 strings of which five, passing over frets, are plucked with a plectrum for melody, and the remainder are plucked with the fingers for harmonic accompaniment. | | | Albrecht--there was a man named Albrecht--played the zither and improvised; I keep on wondering what has happened to him. | | | Member of a family of musical instruments consisting of one or more strings stretched over a resonating frame or soundbox, played horizontally. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/zither
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