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.

Patty Blossom Carolyn Wells 1902

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.

Patty Blossom Carolyn Wells 1902

Her black hair was in two long braids, and she was carrying a small musical instrument that Philip said was a zithern.

Patty Blossom Carolyn Wells 1902

"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."

The Brick Moon, and Other Stories 1899

But she does not call herself Signora Ballatino, and she does not play upon the zithern.

John Ingerfield and Other Stories 1893

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:

John Ingerfield and Other Stories 1893

"_Hon_ the zither," retorted the chairman, waxing mildly indignant; he meant zithern, but he called it a zither.

John Ingerfield and Other Stories 1893

There were three sorts of stringed instruments, the lyre, the cithara (or zithern), and the harp.

Outline of Universal History George Park Fisher 1868

She sat there with the zithern, letting her fingers glide gently over the strings.

A Thorny Path — Volume 07 Georg Ebers 1867

I am having a statue erected to Mesomedes, the great zithern-player -- you perhaps know his songs.

A Thorny Path — Volume 07 Georg Ebers 1867