“With just my zither, I am a self-contained unit – you can play the zither in a tree,” she recalled. “We’d be in the middle of the desert singing in the moonlight, lit by the light of two trucks. And ...

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On October 8, 1828, Missouri’s acclaimed zither maker, Franz Schwarzer, was born in Austria. Schwarzer was trained as a wood carver and architect. While still in Austria, he developed an interest in ...

Edited film: this musical instrument is made out of oil palm leaf veins and can be played by one or two people. If two play upon it, the first one strikes the string with two sticks while the second ...