The Zither reference article from the English Wikipedia on 24-Jul-2004 (provided by Fixed Reference: snapshots of Wikipedia from wikipedia.org)

Zither

The zither is a musical string instrument, mainly used in folk music. The strings are stretched across the length of the soundbox, and the instrument does not have a neck. In entertainment, the zither is perhaps most famous for its role in providing the soundtrack of the classic film noir The Third Man.

Examples:

• American Appalacian dulcimer
• Chinese gŭzhēng
• Chinese ChaoZhou zheng
• Chinese hammered yãngqín
• Estonian kannel
• Finnish kantele
• French épinette
• German Scheitholt
• hammered dulcimer
• Icelandic langspil
• Japanese koto
• Korean gayageum and geomungo
• Norwegian langeleik
• Sundanese kacapi
• Swedish hummel
• Vietnamese Dan Tranh or Dan Thap Luc

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