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 EUROPEAN/AMERICAN MOUNTAIN ZITHERS
The term "zither" is used to describe any instrument where the strings are stretched over a body that does not have a neck. The Appalachian mountain dulcimer is, therefore, a zither.
June Apple Dulcimers creates American versions (American woods, metal frets, and metal tuners) of diatonically fretted zithers ("cousins" of the mountain dulcimer), as well as exact reproductions, from the countries of Germany, Sweden and Denmark, Norway, and Iceland. Many of these instruments were brought to America by the early settlers. In fact, the Scotch-Irish settlers used the German Scheitholt (pictured right) to create the American mountain dulcimer fretboard.
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