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by Donauer
Fri Nov 28, 2014 1:26 am
Forum: Getting Started
Topic: New member asks: How to string and tune the zither.
Replies: 11
Views: 4168

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...
by Donauer
Thu Nov 27, 2014 11:04 pm
Forum: Getting Started
Topic: little finger and thumb rings
Replies: 2
Views: 1317

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. ...
by Donauer
Wed Nov 19, 2014 3:33 pm
Forum: Getting Started
Topic: Playing with the left Pinkie
Replies: 9
Views: 2272

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...
by Donauer
Mon Nov 17, 2014 9:24 pm
Forum: Getting Started
Topic: Playing with the left Pinkie
Replies: 9
Views: 2272

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?