Word: zither
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With new and startling individual acts, the specialties division of the Instrumental Clubs will appear before mystified audiences this year. Twenty-seven performers including a zither player have given the division new life...
Last week the crwth, the virginal, the rebec, the fipple, the lute, the dulcimer, the zither and many another old and forgotten instrument was to be heard in the little Surrey town of Haslemere where 76-year-old Arnold Dolmetsch was giving the tenth annual Haslemere Festival of Ancient Music...
...story was enacted which every good Viennese knows: the courtship of young Emperor Franz Josef and Elizabeth, 16-year-old, harum-scarum daughter of Bavaria's Duke Max. Elizabeth, whose nickname was Sissy, was the favorite of her father who roved the forests with woodcutter friends, played the zither, behaved more like a peasant than a duke. Sissy's shrewish mother intended the elder daughter Helene to be Franz Josef's wife. Sissy went along with them when the Bavarian duchess took Helene to Ischl to meet the young Emperor, came near being sent home when...
...Volksgarten listening to Johann Strauss conduct his own waltzes, that he became "really musical." As a child, piano-scales had bored him, so he had taken up violin, then the banjo and guitar. Vienna and Strauss made him want to know more. He began seriously to study the zither, laid a good musical foundation. No matter how busy making wheels & cars, William Woodin always found time to sing his children to sleep, playing his accompaniments on the guitar or zither. Many of the melodies were original and the book into which they found their way last autumn was called Raggedy...
Prior to now the finest tone-division ever achieved was on the arpacitera, a zither-like instrument with a one-octave range which produced sixteenth tones. It was played with the Philadelphia Orchestra three years ago by Beatrice Weller. Specially constructed French horns have also achieved sixteenth tones...