My grandfather always would play the zither when we were children to go visit him. APPRAISER: Mm-hmm. It is a zither. And a zither is a sort of generic term that we use for any sort of multi-stringed ...

This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...

Learning to play an instrument takes a certain level of dedication — and you can add another layer of dedication on top of that when it’s an instrument not found at your local Guitar Center. But it’s ...

The East-meets-West theme took the form of two antique instruments. Beijing professor Zhao Jiazhen treated the audience with her priceless guqin, a seven-string zither dating from the Song dynasty ...

Appraisal: German Alpine Zither, ca. 1900, in Vintage Portland. Check out Kerry K. Keane's appraisal of a German Alpine Zither, ca. 1900, in Vintage Portland.

Plucked, like the Chinese zither, or bowed, like the erhu, stringed instruments have been played for hundreds of years in China This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese ...