meaning of zither
1. 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. [Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped cittern, or cithern. ]
2. a musical stringed instrument with strings stretch over a flat sounding box; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers
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