Category:Zither

Zith"er, n. Etym: [g. zither. See cittern.] (mus.)

Defn: an instrument of music used in austria and germany. It has from Thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which Lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both Hands in playing on it.

Note: [not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped cittern, or Cithern.]