The zither family of instruments may have given way to the electric guitars of today — it’s always neat to see new tech leveraged to embrace some old world charm.

It also has a long history in Chinese musical instruments – so much so that the Mandarin term sizhu, which translates as “ silk and bamboo”, refers to string and wind musical instruments.

For most of British history, Englishmen have been able to take zither music—or leave it to the Tyrolese. Last week, nonetheless, the humble, lap-sized stringed instrument was the musical rage ...

Rochester, N. Y.. city of cameras and music, is the hotbed of U. S. zither playing. ... The zither, a German-Austrian-Swiss folk instrument, is sometimes called “the mountain piano.” ...

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 ...

Some of the categories under the bayin, such as bamboo and silk, have a variety of musical instruments. For instance, the silk category includes the guqin – a zither that is plucked ...

The Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix has a special exhibition opening Nov ... Autoharp: Strum a melody on the autoharp, a string instrument from the zither family. 9 a.m.-4 p.m.: Photo Booth: ...

The guzheng is an ancient, major musical instrument that dates back more than 2,500 years. The length of a standard guzheng is 1.63 meters, and it is usually played by a musician sitting on a ...