Zither
The zither is a musical string instrument, mainly used in folk music. The strings are stretched across the length of the soundbox, and the instrument does not have a neck. In entertainment, the zither is perhaps most famous for its role in providing the soundtrack of the classic film noir The Third Man.
Examples:
- American Appalacian dulcimer
- Chinese gŭzhēng
- Chinese ChaoZhou zheng
- Chinese hammered yãngqín
- Estonian kannel
- Finnish kantele
- French épinette
- German Scheitholt
- hammered dulcimer
- Icelandic langspil
- Japanese koto
- Korean gayageum and geomungo
- Norwegian langeleik
- Sundanese kacapi
- Swedish hummel
- Vietnamese Dan Tranh or Dan Thap Luc