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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").
German-born American Ruth Welcome released a number of very popular theme-based zither albums between 1958 and 1965 (e.g., Romantic Zither; Zither South of the Border; Zither Goes to Hollywood). Australian-born singer Shirley Abicair popularised the chord zither when she used it for accompaniment in her TV shows, live performances and ...
Olly Oakley (1877–1943) (also known as Joseph or James Sharpe) [1] [2] was a British banjo player and composer. He was considered a prominent zither-banjo player in England. [3] [4] [5] His music made up a part of early banjo recordings on the phonograph, [6] [7] and during his life, he became "the most widely recorded English banjoist". [3]
The first banjo method was the Briggs' Banjo instructor (1855) by Tom Briggs. [36] Other methods included Howe's New American Banjo School (1857), and Phil Rice's Method for the Banjo, With or Without a Master (1858). [36] These books taught the "stroke style" or "banjo style", similar to modern "frailing" or "clawhammer" styles. [36]
Zither-like instrument with between eleven and thirty-six strings, tuned diatonically: 314.122: Russia: spoons [122] Painted wooden teaspoons, used as a percussion instrument: 111.141 Ryukyus of Japan: sanshin [123] Three stringed banjo-like instrument, covered with snakeskin 321.312-6: Sakha: khomus [124] jaw harp, made from a reed attached to ...
Lutes are stringed musical instruments that include a body and "a neck which serves both as a handle and as a means of stretching the strings beyond the body". [1]The lute family includes not only short-necked plucked lutes such as the lute, oud, pipa, guitar, citole, gittern, mandore, rubab, and gambus and long-necked plucked lutes such as banjo, tanbura, bağlama, bouzouki, veena, theorbo ...
Zither instrument stubs (54 P) Pages in category "Zithers" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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 in five courses. . Different types of waldzither come in different tunings, which are generally open tunings as usual in citt