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A Musima Guitar Zither with 25 melody strings and 24 chord strings. A 6/25 - 6 chord sets and 25 melody strings - fretless zither. The guitar zither (also chord zither, fretless zither, [1] [2] mandolin zither [3] or harp zither [4]) is a musical instrument consisting of a sound-box with two sets of unstopped strings.
In modern usage the term "zither" usually refers to three specific instruments: the concert zither (German: Konzertzither), its variant the Alpine zither (each of which uses a fretted fingerboard), and the chord zither (more recently described as a fretless zither or "guitar zither"). Concert and Alpine zithers are traditionally found in ...
Oscar Schmidt was a musical instrument manufacturing company established in 1871. During its long existence, Oscar Schmidt has produced a wide range of string instruments, not only guitars but also numerous models of parlour instruments such as autoharps, celtic harps, guitar zithers, the "guitarophone" (a zither/metal-disc playing hybrid), [3] marxophones [4] and bowed psalteries (or "ukelins").
Guitar (electric guitar, bass guitar) Guitar zither; Harp guitar; Hawaiian guitar; Octofone; Octobass; Pedal steel guitar; Psaltry (Bowed psaltry) Resophonic guitar (Dobro; Delvecchio; Triolian) Steel Guitar (Hawaii) (Lap steel guitar) Strumstick; Taropatch (Tenor ukulele) Tenor violin; Tiple (American tiple) Ukulele (Hawaii) Zither (Concert ...
Autoharp (center) by C.F. Zimmermann Co. in 1896–99; (left is a marxophone, right is a dolceola). Charles F. Zimmermann, a German immigrant in Philadelphia, was awarded a patent in 1882 for a “Harp” fitted with a mechanism that muted strings selectively during play. [3]
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3rd bridge preparation, the front and the back tone are in a reciprocal relationship and known as the bi-tone [1]. On a standard guitar, the string is held above the soundboard by two nodes: the "nut" (near the headstock) and the "bridge" (near the player's right hand on a standard guitar).
The Phonoharp Company (1892 [1] –1928 [2]) was an American manufacturer of musical instruments based in Boston, Massachusetts.Among the instruments the company was known for was the autoharp, whose design they acquired from Alfred Dolge in 1910; they later merged with Oscar Schmidt (who would become the primary American producers of autoharps) in 1926.