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 zither ...

This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...

It's the sound that unites Orson Welles and PJ Harvey What is it? Well. A zither is technically any stringed instrument that has the feature of the strings not extending beyond the soundhole or ...

Follow the sound, however, to Hollyhock Cottage and its owner Angie Smales, and there’s not a harp to be found. “It’s a zither,” Angie explains. “It’s an ethereal sound like the harp, but it’s another ...

Rochester, N. Y.. city of cameras and music, is the hotbed of U. S. zither playing. There last week the United Zither Players of America gathered for its Tenth National Congress and, proudly led by ...