Any zither players here?

[NutmegCT]

My new "keep stretching the brain and fingers" project - learning to play a late 19th century German zither:

Is there another zitherist at BCF?

 

[PAUL161]

First one of those I've seen since I was a kid! Someone in the family had one, don't remember who. I remember it had a sound different than anything else I've ever heard. PJ

 

[NutmegCT]

They're not all that common these days. Mine has had only two other owners, so I guess that makes me ...

wait for it

wait for it

The Third Man!

 

[Basil]

We have a Zither, but no one here plays it. It was something given to my wife by one of her German aunts.

 

[Gliderman8]

Have it electrified. The electric zither.... You and Les Paul.

 

[Silverghost]

Did you hear about the nomadic musician with sleep apnea? He would play zither and yawn.........

 

[NutmegCT]

ba-dump bump

 

[DrEntropy]

No zithers in my lineage. Both sides of our marriage had accordions or pianos (Italians and Ukranians).

 

[NutmegCT]

None in my lineage either - but here's what got me interested (many many ... many years ago) -

And for you trivia fans: " ... in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? "

 

[DrEntropy]

I remember it well, Tom. Used to love it. Mother had it on a record. That brought back some fond memories.

 

[NutmegCT]

and the Swiss gave us ... ?

 

[DrEntropy]

CHEESE!!! :smirk:

 

[DrEntropy]

SOmetime around age six I and brother were foisted into piano lessons, at around ten I rebelled and decided to learn clarinet. Mom's sibling Joe was an accomplished clarinetist, could play "Flight of the Bumblbee" on that thing. He kinda tried to dissuage me by saying to mom: "keep him on the piano." When she asked him why, his answer was: "Because he won't have a place to rest his beer on a clarinet!" :wink:

 

[NutmegCT]

CHEESE!!! :smirk:

 

[DrEntropy]

They headquartered the League of Nations?

...that worked out well, BTW. :smirk:

 

[NutmegCT]

and the Swiss gave us ...

(It's a quotation from the film. Harry Lime, who's made a fortune by selling adulterated penicillin, basically says "being good" doesn't pay off.)

 

[NutmegCT]

voila!

 

[PC]

Zither players? Try over in the Austin Healey forum.

(- obscure Twilight Zone reference.)

 

[NutmegCT]

Zither players? Try over in the Austin Healey forum.

(- obscure Twilight Zone reference.)

Nope - no longer there. Must have gone over to the Rickenbacker forum

 

[DrEntropy]

Been eons since I saw the movie.