Translation for 'zither' from English to Russian

zither

цитра {ж}муз.

• The gue is an extinct type of two-stringed bowed lyre or zither from the Shetland Isles.
• Tube zither of Myanmar, carved of wood in the shape of a crocodile with extended head and tail.
• This new popularity for the zither lasted until well into the 1960s with many successful albums during the period from performers such as Karas, Ruth Welcome, and Shirley Abicair.
• Under his influence the zither started to be used in court circles and eventually became identified as the national musical instrument of Bavaria.
• The guitar zither (also chord zither, fretless zither, mandolin zither or harp zither has doubled strings in unison courses producing a more mandolin-like sound.

• The Violinzither or Violinharp is a string instrument of the zither family, invented in 1925 by "Clemens Neuber" in Klingenthal.
• The instrument is very closely related to the one-stringed alapini vina, an instrument which started out a stick zither but became a tube zither like the eka-tantri vina.
• Because of the trough, this can be considered a trough zither. It could also be considered a bar zither. It is too inflexible to be considered a musical bow.
• During her career, Welcome recorded more zither albums than any other zither player.
• The geomungo (also spelled "komungo" or "kŏmun'go") or "hyeongeum" (literally "black zither", also spelled "hyongum" or "hyŏn'gŭm") is a traditional Korean plucked zither with both bridges and frets.

• The name consists of the base word "kantele" (a Finnish zither-like instrument) and the feminising morpheme "-tar" and can be roughly interpreted as "maiden of the kantele" or "zither-daughter", a kind of muse.
• "gourd zither"; Chữ Nôm: [...]), also called độc huyền cầm (獨絃琴, "one-string zither"; the name is only used by the Jing ethnicity in China) is a Vietnamese stringed instrument, in the form of a monochord (one-string) zither.