Zither
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This zither was made by an unknown maker in the United States, undetermined date. It is a half-bout zither made of oak, with holes for 6 tuning pins for 6 strings (three melody and three drone), 3 extant tuning pins, currently 16 metal frets (fretted twice due to inaccurate fretting), 3 diamond-shaped sound holes and 1 apple-shaped sound hole, closed “D” shaped head.</p>
label: Description
content: <p> While its origin is unknown, collector Anne Grimes acquired this instrument in Tennessee, near Knoxville.</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
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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: 1996.0276.05
label: accession number
content: 1996.0276
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0276.05
label: collector/donor number
content: B2
objectType: label: Object Name
content: zither
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 10 3/4 in x 36 3/4 in; 13.97 cm x 27.305 cm x 93.345 cm