Zither

['zɪðə] or ['zɪðɚ]

解释:

(noun.) a musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers.

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解释:

(n.) 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.]

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解释:

n. the cithern the modern representative of the ancient cithara a popular and common instrument in Tyrol—a flat stringed instrument having a wooden frame and flat sounding-board with from twenty-nine to forty-two strings placed on a table or on the knees the strings played by the right hand the thumb being armed with a metallic plectrum.—Also Zith′ern.

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