Assertion: zither's string | /r/HasProperty | 1st and 2nd melody strings
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text: The instrument had a wood resonator (actually, fellow New Yorker George Teed had beat him to the punch on that score in 1862) and metal "wire" strings (the 1st and 2nd melody strings and 5th "thumb" string; the 3rd melody string was gut and the 4th was silk covered) as well as frets and guitar-style tuning machines (again, both of these features were found in several earlier banjo designs including George Teed's patent of 1862).