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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").
Zither (/ ˈ z ɪ ð ər, ˈ z ɪ θ-/; [1] German:, from the Greek cithara) is a class of stringed instruments.The modern instrument has many strings stretched across a thin, flat body.
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]
American Alfred Davis Cammeyer (1862–1949), a young violinist turned concert banjo player, devised the six-string zither banjo around 1880. British opera diva Adelina Patti advised Cammeyer that the zither banjo might be popular with English audiences as it had been invented there, and Cammeyer went to London in 1888.
Born Margaret Cleary in Cork into a family of Travellers and street singers, [1] she taught herself how to play the zither banjo and the fiddle at a young age. At the age of sixteen, after a family disagreement, Margaret left home and started performing as a street musician.
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]
Herbert J. Ellis as a young man, holding a Portuguese guitar.. Herbert J. Ellis (4 July 1865 – 13 October 1903) was a banjo player, a mandolinist, guitar player and a composer.
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