The langeleik, or Norwegian harp, is a long, narrow, box-like stringed instrument, something of the character of the ancient zither.

[Stringed instruments], monochord^, polychord^; harp, lyre, lute, archlute^; mandola^, mandolin, mandoline^; guitar; zither; cither^, cithern^; gittern^, rebeck^, bandurria^, bandura, banjo; bina^, vina^; xanorphica^. viol, violin, fiddle, kit; viola, viola d'amore

There stood Caesar on the stage wearing the garb of a singing zither-player.

Then did the Augustus sing to the zither a thing called "Attis or the Bacchantes," [Footnote: The title of one of Nero's poems.]

The crown for singing to the zither, moreover, he took without a contest, for all others were debarred on the assumption that they were unworthy of victory.

Thenceforward all other crowns for zither playing at all the contests were sent to him as the only person competent to win victories of that sort.

For one thing Nero contended among the zither-players, and after Menecrates, [Footnote: This proper name is the result of an emendation by Reimar.]the teacher of this art, had celebrated a triumph for him in the hippodrome, he appeared as a charioteer.

Afterward Nero sang publicly with zither accompaniment and drove a chariot, clad in the costume of the Greens and wearing a charioteer's helmet.

But they were the kind you would have expected Nero's soldiers to be, and the arms they carried were zithers and plectra, masks and buskins.

In most respects they behaved entirely alike, and the one point of difference was that the descendant of Augustus was emulating zither-players, whereas the freedman of Claudius was emulating Caesars.

Some explain this by saying that Nero was about to sing with zither accompaniment and could not endure the idea of being seen by Corbulo while he wore the long ungirded tunic.

Now for the first time in his career was he ready to believe that he had done ill both in sparing the zither-player and in going to him unarmed.

I have seen, my friends and allies,believe me,I have seen that man (if he is a man, who married Sporus and was given in marriage to Pythagoras) in the arena of the theatre and in the orchestra, sometimes with the zither, the loose tunic, the cothurnus, [Footnote: The two kinds of footwear mentioned here appear in the Greek as chothornos and embates respectively.

And he continued to devote the same care and attention to his voice, to his songs, and to the zither tunes, not only just then but also subsequently: so he would not try a tone of his intended program.

He resembled Nero in form and voice: he even sang to the zither's accompaniment.

One woman is placed between two men, unexpected friendships are developed, the lute and the zither are played in the moonlight, love and longing abound, nature is made a confidant, der Zaubern der Kunst is overdone, familiar storiesLeda and the Swan, Actaeon and Danaeare interwoven, there are manifest reminiscences of Emilia Galotti and Ofterdingen, and the prose is uncommonly fluent.

The conviction is complete in the mind of the blindfolded friend that he feels the grasp of two hands, whereas only the left hand of the experimenter has grasped his arm, and the right hand is free to beat a drum or play a zither.

The bands were cut, and we had no difficulty in believing that the hands which were dexterous enough to play the zither with very remarkable skill, under such conditions, behind the curtain, were deft enough to sever the cords.

The zither was undisturbed during the evening.

A drum, an accordion, a zither, a mouth-organ were all played upon.

He honored the latter because he was himself learning to sing to the zither and the former because he was emulating his cruelty.]

Fräulein Therese has promised to play for us on her zither, and there is going to be singing.

She drew her zither toward her, and began to play as I never heard that simple little instrument played before.

"And I trust you love to scratch upon the twangling zither as cats sharpen their claws upon the bark of trees?

Shouldst thou hear chords of a zither, it is I, beloved country!