Just last year, he created a zither with bungee cords from the hardware store. Zithers are German in origin, though some of the earliest zither-like instruments date back to 400 BCE China.

Just last year, he created a zither with bungee cords from the hardware store. Zithers are German in origin, though some of the earliest zither-like instruments date back to 400 BCE China.

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 ...

The next, he might be doing research on the rudra vīnā (a zither-like instrument from northern India) or 20th-century Irish harp making, or working with a colleague from a different department.

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

By age 25, he had accumulated a modest collection of instruments: two violins, a cello, a guitar and a harp-like instrument called a "zippy zither." He loved them all dearly.

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.

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 ...

Zither The famous sound of the theme from The Third Man. The earliest surviving zither-like instrument is the Chinese guqin, dating from 433 BC.

Peng Jingxuan plucks the strings of a guzheng, a zither-like instrument. She is giving a street performance accompanied by a plush toy panda, the animal people associate with China. What makes this ...