For those who arrange music for themselves or others, who want neater looking scores, and don't want/cannot invest in computer soft- and hardware, you may want to try the "Composer Template 2" from Long Beach Music, and sold through Amazon. This plastic template for most musical notation c...

Dan, that's "moxie" (mach Sie) at its finest. Do you find the longer handle easier to "fine tune"?

Rudi Mueller

Kurt Eckroth will be performing at this year's "Germany Under Glass" at Milwaukee's Mitchel Park Domes, this Saturday morning, March 7, 2015.

Rudi

There will be a Zither Sunday, this Sunday, March 8, 2015, at the home of Kurt Eckroth in :Wales Wisconsin, starting at 12:00 noon.

Usual format, but with more group participation.

Rudi

Now I know where the cigar burns came from on the underside of my Dad's Förg.

The guy in the picture may have been using a wet rag to put out a cigar fire. The hat on the guy at the left looks like a genuine "Miesbacher".

Rudi

There will be a "Zither Sunday" this Sunday, February 15, starting at noon, at the home of Kurt Eckroth in Wales, Wisconsin. The usual format of lunch, discussion, lessons, and demonstrations will be followed.

Rudi

The griffbrett string lengths of Förg, Schwarzer, and Hornsteiner instruments currently here are 43.6, 43.8, and 43.6 cm respectively. The string length on my Japanese built/Hohner guitar is 65 cm. Considering the machine-end fret to be the "0" fret, There are 19 additional frets on this g...

Thank you both. These are some valuable hints. One of our locals has several "old timers", and on my next visit they'll be measured. The string length (right hand wire to "0" fret) of my present zithers is approximately 17 1/4 inches (43.7 cm).

Rudi

Jeff Palinek did his NBC/Dubuque performance "standing up" last December...but Jeff is at another level.

Kenneth Pauls, Did you take a look at the "travelling zither table" under this site's "zither and resources" section? I've been schlepping this pine model around for a couple of years now, and have found it convenient. This is probably revision 6 or 8; one is kept at our summer c...