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ZITHER [7 records]

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Record 1 2024-09-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • String Instruments
CONT

The épinette des Vosges is a traditional plucked zither used in areas of the Vosges mountains of France.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à cordes

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-08-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • String Instruments
CONT

Psalteries are members of the zither family, instruments having strings extended across an armless, neckless frame or holder...

CONT

A precursor of the harpsichord, the psaltery has plucked strings of gut, horsehair, or metal stretched across a flat soundboard, often trapezoidal but also rectangular, triangular, or wing-shaped. The strings are open, none being stopped to produce different notes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à cordes
DEF

Cithare aux cordes en nombre variable, pincées, grattées ou frappées (selon les époques) et munie d'une caisse de résonance plate de forme triangulaire ou trapézoïdale, laquelle était en usage dans l'Antiquité et dans l'Europe médiévale.

Spanish

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Record 3 2024-08-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • String Instruments
DEF

A traditional Finnish zither originally having five strings...

CONT

Unusually among stringed instruments, a kantele has no bridges or direct contact between string and soundboard, and though this makes it comparatively inefficient in terms of volume, it means that a high proportion of the sound reaches the ear direct from the strings, producing a distinct silvery ring. In Finland the basic form has five strings which are usually tuned to the first five notes of a diatonic scale, the same note range as most runo-song. ... There are also new designs with more strings.

OBS

Kanteles can have strings made of steel, gut or horsehair.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à cordes
DEF

Instrument de musique à cordes pincées de la famille des psaltérions, cithares et cymbalums, composé d'une caisse de résonance triangulaire en bois sur laquelle étaient tendues à l'origine cinq cordes de crin de cheval ou de cheveu, accordées en pentacorde à tierce mouvante (majeure-mineure).

Spanish

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Record 4 2024-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Music
CONT

Players of the zither are commonly referred to as zitherists.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Musique

Spanish

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Record 5 - external organization data 2021-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Museums and Heritage (General)
OBS

zither : an item in the "Musical Tools and Equipment" class of the "Tools and Equipment for Communication" category.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Muséologie et patrimoine (Généralités)
OBS

cithare : objet de la classe «Outils et équipement de musique» de la catégorie «Outillage et équipement pour la communication».

Spanish

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Record 6 2010-08-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • String Instruments
DEF

A musical instrument which is somewhat like a zither and on which simple harmony is obtained by button-controlled dampers operating in sets that when depressed leave free the strings of the desired chord.

Key term(s)
  • auto harp
  • auto-harp

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à cordes
Key term(s)
  • auto harpe
  • auto-harpe

Spanish

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Record 7 1999-02-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • String Instruments
CONT

The Appalachian Dulcimer is a partly fretted member of the zither family. Derived from similar zithers originating in northern Europe... the instrument joined the "folk-revival" [during the 1950's].

OBS

dulcimer: A plucked folk instrument of uncertain ancestry but with features derived from the German Scheithol and the Swedish hummel, played in the southern Appalachian Mountains of the U.S. It consists of an elongated oval sound box of wood, about a yard long and nine inches wide, on which is mounted a narrow fretted fingerboard.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à cordes
DEF

Cithare à cordes pincées qui se joue avec des baguettes.

Spanish

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