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- Fri Nov 28, 2014 1:26 am
- Forum: Getting Started
- Topic: New member asks: How to string and tune the zither.
- Replies: 11
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Re: New member asks: How to string and tune the zither.
Hello Tom, I am, like yourself, a beginner. Before I could even start using my zither I had to put it into playable condition. I found the tuning machine on mine to be quite stiff. I unscrewed all the small screws in the plate and lifted the machine out of the zither. I found the mechanism clogged w...
- Thu Nov 27, 2014 11:04 pm
- Forum: Getting Started
- Topic: little finger and thumb rings
- Replies: 2
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Re: little finger and thumb rings
Thanks for the reply Ken, I'm not sure I understand what you are doing with thumb ring. Are you bending the very tip of the thumb ring so that it attacks the string vertically instead at an obtuse angle on the forward stroke? I'm using a thumb ring of unknown origin that I found in the zither case. ...
- Wed Nov 19, 2014 3:33 pm
- Forum: Getting Started
- Topic: Playing with the left Pinkie
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2566
Re: Playing with the left Pinkie
Thanks for the reply Ken. I also play violin and must admit fingering with the four fingers and excluding the thumb seems easier than three fingers and thumb. Of course fingering a mirror image of the string layout that I am accustomed to and with hand reversed is strange initially. I have experimen...
- Mon Nov 17, 2014 9:24 pm
- Forum: Getting Started
- Topic: Playing with the left Pinkie
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2566
Playing with the left Pinkie
As a total beginner I notice that the pinkie is never shown as being used as a regular part of left hand fingering technique. Why is this?