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Concert zither
The zither is a musical string instrument, mainly used in folk music, most commonly in German-speaking Alpine Europe and East Asian cultures. Like many other stringed instruments, acoustic and electric forms exist; in the acoustic version, the strings are stretched across the length of the soundbox, and neither version has a neck. They can be divided into two classes, the
  • fretted ("concert") zithers and
  • fretless zithers.
A musician that plays them is called zitherist or zither player.
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A Musima Guitar Zither 45 strings with 21 melody, 24 chords
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In 2006 luthier Yuri Landman built the Moodswinger, a 12 string overtone zither for Aaron Hemphill of the noiseband Liars


(For much more on fretless zithers, see the external link below.)

The name zither may be derived from the Greek word kithara, an instrument from classical times used in Ancient Greece and later throughout the Roman Empire and in the Arab world (Arabic قيثارة); the name "guitar" derives from this as well.

In entertainment, the zither is perhaps most famous for its role in providing the soundtrack and opening scene of the classic film noir The Third Man. The instrument has a prominent solo in one of Johann Strauss II's most famous waltzes, "Tales from the Vienna Woods". It is also used by multi-instrumentalist Laraaji on the third release of Brian Eno's Ambient series, Ambient 3: Day of Radiance. In more popular music, Shirley Abicair, the well known Australian born singer, popularised the zither when she used it widely as accompaniment in her popular TV shows, live performances and recordings in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Today, Jerusalem-based multi-instrumentalist Bradley Fish has the most widely distributed musical loops of various zithers in a multitude of styles on Sony Digital Pictures.

The word zither is also used to describe a large family of stringed instruments in which the strings do not extend beyond the sounding box. This family includes the hammered dulcimer, the psalteries, and the Appalachian dulcimer.

A very similar instrument used in India generally for vocal (raag) accompaniment is called Swarmandal.

Dutch experimental luthier Yuri Landman has created 3 different models of electric zithers all with an additional 3rd Bridge to explore the possibilities of creating harmonic overtones with a mathematical scale for the 3rd bridge positions. One was given away to Aaron Hemphill of the Liars.

History

The earliest known zither is a Chinese guqin found in the tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng dating from 433 BC.[1]

See also

Sources

  • Zither from the University of Michigan School of Information's CHICO project
1. ^ [1] Source and stream: early music and living traditions in China

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A string instrument (or stringed instrument) is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are called chordophones.
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Folk music can have a number of different meanings, including:
  • Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous with the term "Traditional music", also often including World Music and Roots music; the term "Traditional music" was given

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fret is a raised portion on the neck of a stringed instrument, that extends generally across the full width of the neck. On most modern western instruments, frets are metal strips inserted into the fingerboard.
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The kithara was an ancient Greek musical instrument in the zither family. In Latin it is spelled cithara, and in modern Greek the word kithara has come to mean guitar.
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The term ancient Greece refers to the periods of Greek history in Classical Antiquity, lasting ca. 750 BC[1] (the archaic period) to 146 BC (the Roman conquest). It is generally considered to be the seminal culture which provided the foundation of Western Civilization.
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The Roman Empire is the name given to both the imperial domain developed by the city-state of Rome and also the corresponding phase of that civilization, characterized by an autocratic form of government. This article however is about the latter.
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soundtrack is the physical area of the film which records the synchronized sound. For the early history of the sound track, see the article sound film.

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In movie industry terminology, a sound track (two words) or just track
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Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize moral ambiguity and sexual motivation. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching from the early 1940s to the late 1950s.
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The Third Man (1949) is a British film noir directed by Carol Reed. The screenplay was written by novelist Graham Greene.
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Johann Strauss II (in German: Johann Strauß (Sohn), "Johann Strauss (son)"; in English also Johann Strauss the Younger, Johann Strauss Jr., Johann Sebastian Strauss
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Tales from the Vienna Woods (German: Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald) refers to several landmark works in Germanophone culture, including:
  • a waltz by Johann Strauss II;
  • a play by Ödön von Horváth; and
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Laraaji is an American musician. Born Edward Larry Gordon in 1943 in Philadelphia, he studied violin, piano, trombone and voice in his early years in New Jersey. He attended Howard University, a historically black university in Washington, D.C.
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Brian Eno (pronounced IPA: /ˌbraɪən ˈiːnəʊ/) born on 15 May 1948 in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England) is an English electronic musician, music theorist and record producer.
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Day of Radiance (1980) I Am Ocean (1981)

Brian Eno chronology

Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror
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(1980) Fourth World, Vol.
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Shirley Abicair (1930 - present) is an Australian-born singer, musician, TV personality, actress and author.

Early Life

Shirley Abicair was born on 26 October 1930 in Melbourne.
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Jerusalem (Hebrew: יְרוּשָׁלַיִם   (help info ) , Yerushaláyim; Arabic:
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Bradley Fish (b. Bethesda, Maryland, 1970) is an American born musician based in Israel. He relocated to Israel in 2004, first living in Tel Aviv, and finally settling in Jerusalem.

He holds a B.A.
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A sound box or sounding box, (sometimes written soundbox), is an open chamber in the body of a musical instrument which alters the instrument's tone quality by modifying the way the instrument resonates.
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hammered dulcimer (also known as the hammer dulcimer) is a stringed musical instrument with the strings stretched over a trapezoidal sounding board. The instrument is typically set at an angle on a stand in front of the musician, who holds a small mallet, called a
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psaltery is a stringed musical instrument of the harp or the zither family. The psaltery of Ancient Greece (Epigonion) dates from at least 2800 BC, it was a harp-like instrument.
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The Appalachian dulcimer is a fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings, although contemporary versions of the instrument can have as many as twelve strings and six courses.
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luthier (IPA: /ˈljuːtiɚ/) is someone who makes or repairs stringed instruments. The word luthier comes from the French word for lute, "luth".
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Yuri Landman (born February 1, 1973) is a Dutch experimental luthier[1], but also active as a comic artist, musician, singer.

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Yuri Landman made his debut in the comics field in 1997 with 'Je Mag Alles Met Me Doen' (in Dutch).
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A third bridge guitar is a guitar with three bridges, instead of the usual two (counting the nut as a bridge).

Standard guitars have two bridges, the first near the tuning pegs (called the "nut"), the second at the other end of the strings, near where they are normally
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harmonic of a wave is a component frequency of the signal that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency. For example, if the frequency is f, the harmonics have frequency 2f, 3f, 4f, etc.
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"Overtones" redirects here. For the album by Just Jack, see Overtones (album).


An overtone is a natural resonance or vibration frequency of a system.
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Liars can refer to:
  • The plural of liar
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The guqin   (help info ) (Chinese: 古琴; Pinyin: gǔqín
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The Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng (Chinese: 曾侯乙; Pinyin: Zēng Hóu Yǐ) is an important archaeological site in Suizhou, Hubei, China, dated sometime after 433 BC.
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