Hallo quincemothman. First, english is not my first language, so... I have some difficulties to understand what You actually means. For me as a pipe-church -organ -maker intonation means something else. You can intonate the the sound of an organ-pipe but not a string. If I understand You right, you ...

Well, back again. Maybe not the right thread for this answer. My Zither was build by the Mr R.Grünwald himself. And of the 60-s a close relative to the daughter of Mr Grünwald, music professor in Berlin a german fellow made some repairs to. My grandpa' had big hands and he made a new, but not beauti...

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Well Folks..... New here on this site and I live in Sweden and my english is not soo good, sorry for that, But let me explain the fitht order. For example, you grep a C-dur, C-sharp in english, achord with your rigth hand. You pluck the g string with you right index finger BUT, and this is one of th...

My teacher Alois Öllinger from Austria let put an Ab string closest to the Griffbrett. Very usefull he told me. Now he is playing for the Angels in heaven, sorry.