In the same year that he left this institution his first book, a volume of poems in dialect, and entitled Zither und Hackbrett (Zither and Dulcimer), was published.
Drawing hiszither from its case, he laid it on the table and allowed his fingers to stray across the strings.
By nationality he was a Hungarian, and in addition to other things, he was a studious disciple of Goethe, and the finest zither player I have ever heard.
She found she could use her zither as it lay upon her breast, and every day the pretty music began at a certain hour, and all in the house soon learned to love and listen for it.
Natalie will give us something in the way of an early dinner," said Mr. Lind, "and then you can make her play the zither for you.
The solid wooden floor resounded to the knocking heels of the men, the air quivered with the clapping hands and the zither music, there was a golden dust about the hanging lamps.
The music stopped instantly and a man, tall, slender, with an indescribably distinguished air, approached, carrying the zither under his arm.
At the door of the cabin sat the zither player, his hands traveling aimlessly over the strings while he listened to the approaching footsteps.
He had left the cabin with his zither the morning of the day before and had not been seen since, except when he had appeared at the camp and cut Alberdina's bonds.
Was not that a zither now mingling its fairy music with the notes of the cow bell?
The pipe became mute, and the ringing tympanum and the murmuring dulcimer; and as though a chord were broken, as though song itself were dying, the zither echoed a trembling broken sound.
And the music played joyous tunes mingled of the sounds of the tympanum, the pipe, the zither and the dulcimer.
Then he took his zither and played upon it so beautifully that no one in all that land had ever heard the like, and the princess herself came to the window to listen.
The next morning the Fairest in the Land sent for the old woman and asked her, 'Who is it that lives with you, and plays the zither so well?
Then the stranger took his zitherand played the whole evening for the amusement of the princess.
He broke the seal and read the strange words “Let the king take his trustiest bow, hasten to the palace and shoot an arrow through the zither case”.
It is now called the ka-go and is shaped like a Korean zither but is smaller.
The king obeyed the mandate, hastened back to the palace by a private gate, entered the queen’s apartments unannounced and shot an arrow through a zither case that stood against the wall.
The arrow pierced the zithercase and the High Priest who was hidden behind it.
The zither I have now is not the little one you saw at Wiesbaden, but an Austrian zither which is much larger and tuned lower, and altogether a finer instrument.
In three or four months more, as I am working very hard at it, I shall know enough of thezither to do without a master.
She can play the zither splendidly, and when she's well again, you can teach her anything.
Your zither is in perfect tune, dear countess, but you seem to be somewhat out of tune," said the king, as he came back into the room.
Then play something for us; you can play the zither beautifully," said Walpurga.
In the afternoon, their next neighbor, who lived at a mountain meadow about an hour's distance from Hansei's, paid them a visit and brought her zither with her.
Then the zither played, a cap was thrown out over the curtain, a hand (to the right of the Medium) was shown over the curtain.
The zither was put out at the right and left hand lower corners of the curtain.
A small musical-box was also given to one of the women to hold, and a zither placed upon the lap of a man.
The bands were cut, and we had no difficulty in believing that the hands which were dexterous enough to play the zither with very remarkable skill, under such conditions, behind the curtain, were deft enough to sever the cords.
The zither thrilled louder and Marmaduke sat entranced, for their eyes had met and he realised that she was keeping her promise--she was dancing for him, for him alone.
She nodded to the zither player to begin, striking the strings with loud full-blooded notes that vibrated and thrilled through the little theatre and came back to aid the growing clamour of the music.
This magic zither has been hidden for three hundred centuries in an old bureau drawer, guarded by the Iron Duck, and, although many have attempted to rescue it, all have died of a strange ailment just as success was within their grasp.
Repenting of her deed, Immerglück has sought advice of the giants, Offen and Besitz, and they tell her that she must procure the magic zither which confers upon its owner the power to go to sleep while apparently carrying on a conversation.
Moreover, the little party in the salon that night was largely composed of Viennese or Bavarians; they understood the zither and the Tyrolese songs; they were to the manner born, good judges of execution.
Incredible as were the effects he had seen, and which he had rejected as unconscious trickery, not one of them was more destructive of the teaching of his books than this vision of the zither played high in the air by sad, sweet hands.
After a long and painful silence the bell tinkled faintly, and as all listened breathlessly the zither began to play.
There is also on a table just inside the curtains, with paper and pencils, a small tin trumpet, a bell, and a zither upon it.
Every hand was in view, and yet the zither continued to play its weird and wistful little tune.
Silent, open-mouthed, staring, Stinchfield heard the zither descend to the table before him.
So he used to wander to the neighborhood of the Lei, evenings, with his Zither and "Express his Longing in low Singing," as Garnham says.
Then, all of a sudden, the playing of a zither and the full-throated song of a woman smote my ears, and I arrested my descent.
Some explain this by saying that Nero was about to sing with zither accompaniment and could not endure the idea of being seen by Corbulo while he wore the long ungirded tunic.
Thenceforward all other crowns for zither playing at all the contests were sent to him as the only person competent to win victories of that sort.
And he continued to devote the same care and attention to his voice, to his songs, and to the zither tunes, not only just then but also subsequently: so he would not try a tone of his intended program.
Afterward Nero sang publicly with zither accompaniment and drove a chariot, clad in the costume of the Greens and wearing a charioteer's helmet.
Shall I bring my zither to the table under the beech tree?
Loisl came up with his zither and they all made way before him.
Ruth heard it as she leaned back in the deep shade and listened to those silvery melodies and chords of wonderful purity, coaxed from the little zither by Loisl's strong, rough hand, with its tender touch.
She tried in vain to check them, and then with a sob she turned and walked quickly from the studio, the zither tinkling, as the door closed after her, with a gay frivolity that jarred sharply on Tom Claymore's nerves.
The zither was duly wrapped up again by the light of a flickering oil lamp which hung under a much venerated image of the Virgin and Child let into the wall of the Piazza, the open space which I have mentioned as being close to the palace.
But when he came to the great house which was our destination, taking the bundle from the boatman, he unwrapped a stringed instrument, a sort of lute or zither it seemed to me.
Will sang one or two more songs, and then, making a very fine salute, and bowing, put his lute or zither under his arm and joined me where I was standing in the shadow.
Presently Blanquette emerged laden with zither case and fiddle and little grey valise and the pearl-buttoned suit which was slung over one arm.
Old Père Paragot had taught her to play the zither indifferently well, but he had made her dance divinely: and Blanquette, I may here mention incidentally, had been my instructress in the art.
She laughed and ran her hands over the zither strings.
Then he taught me to play the zither and to dance.
And all through the orgy Paragot fiddled with strenuous light-heartedness, and Blanquette thrummed her zither with the awful earnestness of a woman on whose efforts ten francs and perhaps half a goose depended.
Paragot tucked his violin under his chin, tuned up, waved one, two, three with his bow; Blanquette struck a cord on her zither and the dance began.
Not that he appeared the least dismayed, but stood perfectly at his ease in front of the radiance of the scented lamps, his zither in his hand, minutely surveying the faces of those before him.
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