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The zither is a musical string instrument, mainly used in folk music, most commonly in German-speaking Alpine Europe. 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 Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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A string instrument (or stringed instrument) is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. ...
Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and for the common people. ...
- fretted ("concert") zithers and
- fretless zithers.
A musician that plays them is called zitherist or zither player. The neck of a guitar showing the first four frets. ...
 A Musima Guitar Zither 45 strings with 21 melody, 24 chords
 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.) Download high resolution version (570x659, 91 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
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An engravers impression of Antonio Stradivari examining an instrument. ...
Yuri Landman (born 1-2-1973) is a dutch multi disciplined artist most well known for his work as an experimental luthier, but also active as a comic artist, illustrator, musician, singer, graphic designer and furniture designer. ...
Liars can refer to: The album by Todd Rundgren The indie rock band. ...
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. The kithara was an ancient Greek musical instrument. ...
The Temple to Athena, the Parthenon Ancient Greece is a period in Greek history that lasted for around three thousand years. ...
Motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus (SPQR) The Roman Empire at its greatest extent, c. ...
In entertainment, the zither is perhaps most famous for its role in providing the soundtrack and opening scene of the classic film noir The fourth 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. // In film formats, the sound track is the physical area of the film which records the synchronized sound. ...
This still from The Big Combo (1955) demonstrates the visual style of film noir at its most extreme. ...
Johann Strauss II The Waltz King coming to life in the Stadtpark, Vienna Johann Strauss II (German: Johann Strauß (Sohn), Johann Strauss (son); in English also Johann Strauss the Younger, Johann Strauss Jr. ...
Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald (English: Tales from the Vienna Woods) refers to several landmark works in Germanophone culture, including: a waltz by Johann Strauss II; a play by Ödön von Horváth; and several film adaptations of the play. ...
Born Edward Larry Gordon in 1943 in Philadelphia, he studied violin, piano, trombone and voice in his early years in New Jersey. ...
Brian Eno (born Brian Peter George St. ...
original cover current cover Ambient 3/Day of Radiance (1980) is an album by the American ambient musician Laraaji which was produced by Brian Eno. ...
Biography Australian-born Singer, Musician, TV personality, Actress & Author. ...
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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. This article needs to be wikified. ...
A diatonic hammered dulcimer made by Masterworks The hammered dulcimer is a stringed musical instrument with the strings stretched over a trapezoidal sounding board. ...
A psaltery is a stringed musical instrument of the harp or the zither family. ...
Two Appalachian dulcimers The Appalachian dulcimer is a fretted string instrument with three or four strings, although contemporary versions of the instrument can have as many as twelve strings and six courses. ...
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. An engravers impression of Antonio Stradivari examining an instrument. ...
Yuri Landman (born 1-2-1973) is a dutch multi disciplined artist most well known for his work as an experimental luthier, but also active as a comic artist, illustrator, musician, singer, graphic designer and furniture designer. ...
In 2006 luthier Yuri Landman built the Moodswinger, a 12 string overtone guitar for Aaron Hemphill of the noiseband Liars The 3rd bridge guitar is an electric prepared guitar with an additional 3rd bridge. ...
In acoustics and telecommunication, the harmonic of a wave is a component frequency of the signal that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency. ...
An overtone is a sinusoidal component of a waveform, of greater frequency than its fundamental frequency. ...
Liars can refer to: The album by Todd Rundgren The indie rock band. ...
History
The first Zither existing is a Chinese Guqin found in a nobel tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng of 433 BC This article is becoming very long. ...
The Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng (曾侯乙墓) is a an important archaeological site in Suizhou, Hubei, China, dated sometime after 433 BC. The tomb contained the remains of Marquis Yi of Zeng. ...
Centuries: 6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC Decades: 480s BC 470s BC 460s BC 450s BC 440s BC - 430s BC - 420s BC 410s BC 400s BC 390s BC 380s BC Years: 438 BC 437 BC 436 BC 435 BC 434 BC - 433 BC - 432 BC 431 BC...
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The Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng (曾侯乙墓) is a an important archaeological site in Suizhou, Hubei, China, dated sometime after 433 BC. The tomb contained the remains of Marquis Yi of Zeng. ...
See also The guzheng, or gu zheng (Chinese: ; pinyin: gÇ”zhÄ“ng) or zheng (ç®) (gu- means ancient) is a traditional Chinese musical instrument. ...
Typical Turkish kanun with 79-tone mandal configuration by Ozan Yarman The qanún or kanun (Arabic qânûn, from Greek κανων measuring rod; rule akin to καννα cane) is a string instrument found in Near Eastern traditional music based on Maqamat. ...
An Autoharp The Autoharp is a musical string instrument having a series of chord bars attached to dampers which, when depressed, mute all the strings other than those that form the desired chord. ...
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Koistinen concert kantele with 38 strings A kantele, Finnish (or kannel) in Estonian, is a traditional plucked string instrument. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Prepared guitar. ...
In 2006 luthier Yuri Landman built the Moodswinger, a 12 string overtone zither for Aaron Hemphill of the noiseband Liars The Moodswinger is a custom made string instrument made by Yuri Landman. ...
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