- The
waldzither (German: "forest zither") is a
plucked string instrument from Germany. It is a type of
cittern that has nine (sometimes ten)
steel strings...
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names Waldzither and Lutherzither. The last name
comes from the
belief that
Martin Luther pla**** this instrument. Also, the
names Thüringer
Waldzither in...
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Deutsche seine Laute, die
Waldzither,
welche schon von Dr.
Martin Luther auf der
Wartburg im Thüringer
Walde (daher der Name
Waldzither)
gepflegt wurde, zu...
- The
instrument is also
related to the
Portuguese guitar and the
German waldzither.
Early examples had
tuning pegs (similar to a
violin or lute), but many...
- a
researcher living near Munich, Germany. She is a
specialist in the
waldzither, a
German form of the cittern, and has been
instrumental in the recent...
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happened to
accompany his sung
hymns with a lute,
later recreated as the
waldzither that
became a
national instrument of
Germany in the 20th century. Wolfgang...
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Viola da
Terceira (Azores)
Viola toeira (Portugal)
Walaycho (the Andes)
Waldzither (Germany)
Yaybahar Yueqin (China)
Zheng (China)
Zhongruan (China) Zhu...
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include the 6-course/12-string
Portuguese guitar and the 5-course/9-string
waldzither. The
mandocello is
classically tuned to an
octave plus a
fifth below the...
- The
tuning mechanism was also used on the
German cittern known as the
waldzither, and is ****ociated with the early-20th-century
instruments built by C...
- 20th century.: 151 The name
German lute is
sometimes also used for the
waldzither, for both
gaining the
status of a
national instrument in the
early 20th...
