Word: zither
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most U. S. ears, Chinese music is at best incomprehensible, at worst a painful noise. To Chinese ears and minds it is not only pleasant but instructive. Philosopher K'ung Fu-tze (Confucius), himself a ch'in (zither) player of no mean order, considered music one of the six fundamental factors in education. In China's great days, music was a required subject for budding administrators. Hundreds of learned books were written about...
...didn't know a piece with some other kind of bird in it. But Gay kept on practicing, studied elocution in Minneapolis, finally got her big chance at the New York Chautauqua. Thereafter she followed the Chautauqua circuit, along with chalk-talk artists, bell ringers, evangelists, yodlers, zither performers, magicians, bagpipe players, ventriloquists and the strange assortment of educators and entertainers who, in brown tents pitched in small towns all over the U. S., spread culture to apathetic audiences before...
...zither, a German-Austrian-Swiss folk instrument, is sometimes called "the mountain piano." A really good zither is a shallow box with 41 wire strings. Laid on the lap or a table, it is played by fingering with the left hand, plinking with a thumb pick and fingers of the right hand...
...first American Zither Congress was held in 1912 in Washington, Mo., home of the Franz Schwarzer Zither Co., largest U. S. zither makers. Young folk are apt to think the homely zither "corny." President Leonard Zapf, Philadelphia music dealer and teacher, taught his son Karl Tom to play, heard him acclaimed a genius at the 1926 Congress. But Karl Tom deserted the zither, took to music teaching...
...final day, 2,000 zither-loving Teutons crowded into the Rochester Masonic Auditorium for the concert. Feature of the program was four favorite zither compositions by late Zither Composer Henry Wormsbacher. Though not up to the standard of world's No. 1 Zitherist Ferdinand Kollmaneck of Leipzig, Maximillian Veith plinked excellently, got a big hand...