The autoharp is a musical instrument in the chorded zither family. The "guzheng" is a Chinese plucked zither. The guqin (; ) is a plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument of the zither family. A music instrument called Qin zither was developed during Qin Dynasty. The gayageum is descended from an ancient Chinese zither known as the "guzheng". The is a Japanese single-stringed zither. Elser escaped the grim family situation with music, playing flute, accordion, bass and the zither. There is a tendency in modern German to interchange the words for cittern and zither. The se ( or ) is an ancient Chinese plucked zither (string instrument). The Japanese ichigenkin, a monochord zither, is believed to be derived from the qin. The bass strings of the Slovenian drone zither also freely resonate as a drone. He marketed these as "zither" banjos from his 1869 patent. There are two popular tunings for the modern zither&colon; Munich and Viennese. The song makes use of a Marxophone, a type of fretless zither. Cai Luong Singing is often performed in the soundtrack of guitar and zither.