One rare Kerschensteinerschule Zither in good playing condition. Built around 1895 byFranz Xaver Kerschensteiner. Don\'t see too many of these! Beautiful decorative piece for the wall or wonderful new instrument for an ambitious musician to play. Spend a few days with it and see how much you like it. I\'m sure you\'ll want to keep it.PutFranz Xaver Kerschensteinerschule into google to read about thebackground and history of this instrument. Shipped with the strings slackened. Tuning instructions included.Clean it, polish it, and let it adjust to your temperature and humidity before tuning it up. Standard autoharp or zither tuning keys will work. Be gentle and careful, let the strings settle into their proper tuning. With a proper hard shell case and a quality pickup this could be a real working musician\'s instrument.

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