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Zither  n.  (Mus.) An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany. It has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it. Note: (Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped cittern, or cithern.)






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"Zither" Quotes from Famous Books



... boatmen strike lightly the zither As they drift 'neath the hillsides of green, But gone from the Rhine is the palgrave, And gone is the palgravine. Play lightly, play lightly, O boatman, When the shadows of night round thee fall, For the lights have gone out in the castle, The lights ...
— ZigZag Journeys in Northern Lands; - The Rhine to the Arctic • Hezekiah Butterworth

... was rendered to him, for this was the time of his betrothal, and the bride was Moti. The festival had lasted for two days, and would be prolonged for many more. Moti was forgotten. The little maid who loved her lay on the floor at her feet and wept because Moti wept. Those who with zither and dance should have beguiled the hours, had stolen away to peep through latticed screens at ...
— Atma - A Romance • Caroline Augusta Frazer

... which was a small piece of metal, wood, or bone. The psaltery or nebel (which was of course derived from the Egyptian nabla, just as the kinnor probably was in some mysterious manner derived from the Chinese kin) was a kind of dulcimer or zither, an oblong box with strings which were struck by small hammers. The timbrel corresponds to our modern tambourine. The schofar and keren were horns. The former was the well-known ram's horn which is still blown on the occasion of the Jewish ...
— Critical & Historical Essays - Lectures delivered at Columbia University • Edward MacDowell

... Nachmittaggewitter. Die Bauern zogen heim auf mueden Gaeulen, Und singend kehrten Winzervolk und Schnitter. Auf allen Daechern qualmten blaue Saeulen 5 Genuegsam himmelan, ein luftig Gitter. Nun ist es Nacht, es geistern schon die Eulen, Einsam aus einer Laube klingt die Zither. ...
— A Book Of German Lyrics • Various

... which we find embodied in folk-songs. The lur is a long wooden instrument, of the trumpet order, and is usually made of birch bark. It is much used in the mountains. The langeleik, or Norwegian harp, is a long, narrow, box-like stringed instrument, something of the character of the ancient zither. It has seven strings and sound holes, but its tone is ...
— Norwegian Life • Ethlyn T. Clough

... when no one was looking, and she longed to say, "I'm sorry I was cross; forgive me, Jack." But it could not be done then, so she turned to admire Merry's bed-shoes, the pots of pansies, hyacinths, and geranium which Gus and his sisters sent for her window garden, Molly's queer Christmas pie, and the zither Ed promised to teach her how ...
— Jack and Jill • Louisa May Alcott

... the sound. It was exceedingly faint, like the distant thrumming of a zither. Only it was a single note, which did not rise and fall, although there seemed a continual variation ...
— The Blind Spot • Austin Hall and Homer Eon Flint



Words linked to "Zither" :   zithern, dulcimer, cither, stringed instrument



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