<i>German Scheitholt</i> Zither
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This <i>German Scheitholt</i> type zither was made by an unknown maker in Pennsylvania, undetermined date. It has a trapezoidal-shaped body, with a wood nut and bridge, 17 metal frets, 3 round sound holes, 3 cotter pins (most-likely replacements, but function well enough to tune the instrument), and rounded head.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>According to the collector Anne Grimes, the instrument came from Western Virginia where it was found by a road crew preparing to grade for a new highway, in 1974. The zither was purchased from William "Unaka Bill" Breedlove, an amateur folksinger and poet of Block City and Church Hill near Kingsport, Tennessee.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Anne Grimes (1912-2004) was an American journalist, musician, and historian of American (particularly Midwestern) folklore. Grimes studied voice and piano at Ohio Wesleyan and initiated graduate studies at Ohio State University. Following her education, Grimes was a music teacher, music and dance critic, and radio host. After WWII, Grimes began collecting and documenting folk songs throughout Ohio, as well as collecting Appalachian dulcimers and zithers. She would continue this work, performing, recording, and lecturing on instruments from her collection throughout the rest of her career.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Dulcimers
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Smith, L. Allen. Catalogue of Pre-Revival Appalachian Dulcimers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0276.01
label: accession number
content: 1996.0276
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0276.01
label: collector/donor number
content: A23
objectType: label: Object Name
content: zither
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 7/8 in x 4 3/4 in x 37 7/16 in; 9.8425 cm x 12.065 cm x 95.09125 cm