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In modern usage the term "zither" usually refers to three specific instruments: the concert zither (German: Konzertzither), its variant the Alpine zither (each of which uses a fretted fingerboard), and the chord zither (more recently described as a fretless zither or "guitar zither"). Concert and Alpine zithers are traditionally found in ...
The Acholi instrument is a rectangular instrument, about 51.5 cm (20.25 in) long with seven nylon strings. [43] The instrument has a "bridge" at each end. [43] Images of the modern instrument show that a wood top has been added, converting the trough zither to a box zither. [12] [11] There are at least two pentatonic tunings used by the Acholi ...
Frame zither is a class of musical instrument (subset of zither) within the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system for a type of simple chordophone (stringed instrument), in which the body of the instrument is made from a frame. [1] Frame zithers are musical instruments in which strings are strung across an open frame. [2]
It is a plucked zither with 12 strings, though some more recent variants have 18, 21 or 25 strings. It is probably the best known traditional Korean musical instrument . [ 1 ] It is based on the Chinese guzheng and is similar to the Japanese koto , Mongolian yatga , Vietnamese đàn tranh , Sundanese kacapi and Kazakh jetigen .
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, and similar to the Mongolian yatga, the Korean gayageum and ajaeng, the Vietnamese đàn tranh, the Sundanese kacapi and the Kazakh jetigen. [1]
31: Instruments which consist solely of a string bearer or a string bearer with a resonator that is not integral to the instrument Subcategories This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total.
The tube zither is a stringed musical instrument in which a tube functions both as an instrument's neck and its soundbox. [1] As the neck, it holds strings taut and allows them to vibrate. As a soundbox, it modifies the sound and transfers it to the open air.
The guitar zither (also chord zither, fretless zither, [1] [2] mandolin zither [3] or harp zither [4]) is 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 ...