Recent Examples on the WebZikina, the world music band consisting of guitarist and percussionist Mike Cardozo, bassist Roston Kirk, drummer Kade Parkin and Uganda instrumentalist Gideon Ampeire, who has built his own zither and thumb piano. Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 8 Sep. 2022 The video itself begins with a playful nod to traditional Korean culture as Jisoo plucks out a melody from the zither while wearing a contemporary spin on the hanbok crafted by the next-generation couturier Miss Sohee, and Cartier jewelry. Liam Hess, Vogue, 19 Aug. 2022 Modern readers are more intelligent, but just for the stragglers, a zither is a flat, stringed instrument, like a guitar with a shallower sound box and no neck. David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2022 The Girl with the Flaxen Hair between themselves, vocalist Alexander scraped a baby-blue hair pick along the strings of a dulcimer (a type of zither) and all three clacked hair straighteners and threw curlers at each other, among other actions. Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 20 Oct. 2020 She was survived by her son Walter who was a vocalist, voice teacher and zither player. Lauren Young, oregonlive, 17 Oct. 2020 Composer Anton Karas played the entire thing on the zither. Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2020 Ak Dan Gwang Chil Ak Dan Gwang Chil from South Korea draws on folk (minyo) and ritual (gut) styles from what is now western North Korea, and performed at Globalfest on traditional Korean instruments: zithers, flutes, drums, gongs. Jon Pareles, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2020 One writes, one paints, one plays the zither in order to perfect one’s character, to attain moral fulfillment by ensuring that one’s individual humanity is in harmony with the rhythms of universal creation. Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2019 See More
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Etymology
German, from Old High German zitara, cithara, from Latin cithara cithara — more at cither