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Long zithers

Scope note

Zitherlike chordophones having a long rectangular soundboard or tube resonator with a slightly arched surface and usually, though not always, movable bridges, played by plucking with the fingers.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000212157

Equivalent Terms used

long zither

Created

13yrs ago

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