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zither
noun
zith·er
Ë?zi-tÍŸhÉ™r 
-thər
-thər
: a stringed instrument having usually 30 to 40 strings over a shallow horizontal soundboard and played with pick and fingers
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Visit favorites include the tea ceremony, hina doll display, ikebana flower arrangements, and koto (Japanese zither) performances, along with storytelling and hands-on workshops.
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Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 1 Mar. 2024
Indeed, there are few Indonesian traces in East Africa besides some musical instruments like the xylophone and the zither and the Indonesian crops discussed earlier.
—Jared Diamond, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2023
Gone, too, were their instruments: drums, flutes, gongs, two varieties of zither, and a towering mouth organ with pipes like city spires.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 3 July 2024
Already, Wang Jue’s erratic score, which has its generic passages but is mostly an eccentric, atonal pleasure, is establishing a feeling of unease, with vaguely menacing drones brewing behind twanging strings that sound like Ennio Morricone got his hands on a zither while in a bad mood.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 9 Nov. 2021
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Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 1 Mar. 2024
Indeed, there are few Indonesian traces in East Africa besides some musical instruments like the xylophone and the zither and the Indonesian crops discussed earlier.
—Jared Diamond, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2023
Gone, too, were their instruments: drums, flutes, gongs, two varieties of zither, and a towering mouth organ with pipes like city spires.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 3 July 2024
Already, Wang Jue’s erratic score, which has its generic passages but is mostly an eccentric, atonal pleasure, is establishing a feeling of unease, with vaguely menacing drones brewing behind twanging strings that sound like Ennio Morricone got his hands on a zither while in a bad mood.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 9 Nov. 2021
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“Zither.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/zither. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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zither
noun
zith·er
Ë?zitÍŸh-É™r
Ë?zith-
Ë?zith-
: a stringed instrument with thirty to forty tuned strings that are plucked with the fingers or with a pick
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