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“Her black hair was in two long braids, and she was carrying a small musical instrument that Philip said was a zithern.”
“There was a zithern accompaniment by the girl in orange, but it was soft and unobtrusive, that the lines themselves might not be obscured.”
“Blaney read some of his poems, to a zithern accompaniment, but they weren't very impressive, and not nearly so poetic as the lines he had written for her.”
“Go, then," I said, in my sternest accents, -- "go fetch a zithern, or a banjo, or a kit, or a hurdy-gurdy, or a fiddle.”
“But she does not call herself Signora Ballatino, and she does not play upon the zithern.”
“He again repeated that she was the world-renowned performer on the zithern; and, undeterred by the audible remark of a lady in the pit to the effect that she'd "never 'eard on' er," added:”
“_Hon_ the zither," retorted the chairman, waxing mildly indignant; he meant zithern, but he called it a zither.”
“There were three sorts of stringed instruments, the lyre, the cithara (or zithern), and the harp.”
“She sat there with the zithern, letting her fingers glide gently over the strings.”
“I am having a statue erected to Mesomedes, the great zithern-player -- you perhaps know his songs.”
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