The tunings of the 16-string Zither follow the pentatonic scale (having just 5 notes).While performing, players often stand, or sit on a chair or a mat on the floor, with the Zither in front of them.

The Emmy-winning performer of a 16-string Vietnamese zither will perform at San Francisco’s Aug. 2 Yerba Buena Gardens ...

This zither was made by The Bosstone Co. in Boston, Massachusetts, around 1924-1926. It is a Bosstone Grand Autoharp, made of wood, with a metal strip attached over bass strings with 4 felt ...

The laser cut version [Nicolas] created had five strings to hammer on, though the type used in classical music arrangements typically contain upwards of thirty strings. The zither family of ...

What began more than a decade ago as research into a traditional German stringed instrument has turned Davenport into one of this country’s zither centers. “We have developed into the largest ...

The zither, a German-Austrian-Swiss folk instrument, is sometimes called “the mountain piano.” A really good zither is a shallow box with 41 wire strings.

Layering his custom-built 48-string zither with slide guitar, clarinet, and pump organ, the Texas native makes music that draws as much from drone and ambient as from jazz and Americana.

Award-winning performer-composer-instrumentalist Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ’s Stanford Live “Harps of Asia” concerts with three renowned Asian zither masters this week represent the culmination ...

Their strings once made of twisted silk, Chinese stringed instruments the zither, or guqin, and erhu have a long history.

A new 16-string, single-fret acoustic instrument called the Hanago has launched on Kickstarter, which is designed to combine the best aspects of piano and guitar to make learning to play easy ...