Bold as love on...a Zither?

[Dioxic]

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In my opinion this is such a great interpretation of the song. It has a really magical quality played on a Zither ( who would have guessed? Not me. :huh )

Then again I guess not too many people master ancient native instruments & cover Hendrix, SRV, & Steve Vai tunes :rotflmao

[webb]

Thanks. That was great.

[drgonzoguitar]

Hendrix would be smiling listening to this, IMO. Very cool.

It makes me want to buy a Guzheng!

[PosterBoy]

That was awesome.

[Strat-Mangler]

Didn't do it for me at all.

[Blanket Jackson]

I think I just found the next Mrs. Blanket

[otterhound]

Just ask the Axis , he knows everything .
How does one go about adapting a 6 screw trem to one of those things ?

[dantedayjob]

I'm imagining her playing Little Wing, Wind Crys Mary, Child In Time, Tales of Brave Ulysses...

EDIT: Looked and she DOES have a Little Wing vid, every bit as good as I expected

[g-fry195]

Whatever your opinion of this arrangement, it's not being played on a zither.
It's a Japanese instrument called a koto.

[LHanson]

I'm grinning here.

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[drgonzoguitar]

Whatever your opinion of this arrangement, it's not being played on a zither.
It's a Japanese instrument called a koto.


Look ma, I'm Google!

And you are still wrong....

http://www.asza.com/ihm.shtml

Zithers are string instruments without a neck, where the strings run the full length of the soundboard. There are a number of sub-categories including: plucked, bowed and fretted. Zithers have multiple origins and it is sometimes difficult to trace them clearly. The Asian bowed zither family seem related to the long (plucked) zither family. The origins of the prominent Asian long zither family, e.g. the koto or the zheng, may be found in the rustic Oceanic tube zither family. The tube zithers in Madagascar are related to those in Borneo. The African mat and trough zithers may have developed to become the Persian zithers. The northern European fretted zither family, from which the Appalachian mountain dulcimer derives, may have come from the psaltery family (plucked) which finds its roots in Persia, or from the Asian zither family via Siberia. The hammer dulcimer family from which the piano developed, comes from the Persian santur.

Ajeang - Korea
Bro - Vietnam
Chake - Thailand
Citera - Hungary
Dan Bau - Vietnam
Dan Tranh - Vietnam
Goong - Vietnam
Ichigenkin - Japan
Inanga - Burundi
Kayageum - Korea
Kecapi - Indonesia
Koto - Japan
Lutong - Malaysia
Mvet - Cameroon
Nigenkin- Japan
Qin - China
Yomkwo - Nigeria
Zheng - China


or you can look at.....


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zither


Anyways, she is playing a Korean: Gayageum (or kayagum), not a Koto. (read the description on her videos)....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayageum


....which is from the family of Zither instruments.