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.

Zithers are German in origin, though some of the earliest zither-like instruments date back to 400 BCE China. The laser cut version [Nicolas] created had five strings to hammer on, ...

LANSING – It’s rare to see Stan Werbin stumped by an instrument. Werbin, the owner of Elderly Instruments, has seen a lot since opening the store in 1970. The zither-like instrument he’s ...

Plucked, like the Chinese zither, or bowed, like the erhu, stringed instruments have been played for hundreds of years in China Reading Time: 3 minutes Why you can trust SCMP ...

Now the instrument can play modern music like jazz, blues and even rock. Now the instrument can play modern music like jazz, blues and even rock. Culture researcher and composer Thao Giang says one of ...

The guzheng, an 18-string zither-like instrument believed to be more than 2,500 years old, will take center stage at the Iowa City Community String Orchestra's fall concert at 3 p.m.

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.

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.