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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 Appalachian dulcimer
- Chinese Guqin
- Chinese ChaoZhou zheng
- Chinese hammered yăngqín
- Estonian kannel
- Finnish kantele
- French épinette
- German Scheitholt or Hackbrett
- hammered dulcimer
- Icelandic langspil
- Japanese koto
- Korean gayageum and geomungo
- Latvian kokle
- Lithuanian kankles
- Norwegian langeleikThe Langeleik is a traditional stringed musical instrument from Norway. The instrument has one melody string, like a monochord, but it has additional bourdon strings (or drone strings), usually 7 or 8 on modern instruments, but older ones had fewer, most
- Persian santurThe santur is a hammered dulcimer of Persia. It is a trapezoid-shaped box often made of walnut, with 72 strings. The special-shaped mallets are lightweight and are held between the index and middle fingers. A typical santur has two sets of bridges, provid
- Sundanese kacapiString instruments Kacapi is a zither-like Sundanese musical instrument played as the main accompanying instrument in the Tembang Sunda or Kacapi Suling genre, or an additional instrument in Gamelan Degung performance. Form According to its form or physic
- Swedish hummelThe hummel is a stringed musical instrument that was developed in Sweden. It is related to the zither, and is commonly used in Swedish folk music. The hummel has several strings—typically around ten—along a fretted fingerboard. The fingerboard is mounted
- Vietnamese Dan Tranh or Dan Thap Luc
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