Friday, June 20, 2014

KLEM FM


Cat Power covers the Phil Philips 1959 original. Her unusual accompaniment is an autoharp, and may be the only song in my iTunes library to feature one. Can anyone name another?

According to the Wiki, the autoharp isn't a harp at all but rather a zither. These are old words. The Latin name for a harp is a cithara which is cognate with zither (and also guitar). Somehow, like the words, these instruments all trace back to a common ancestor.

5 comments:

Synova said...

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deborah said...

Sea of Love was a pretty good Pacino/Burstyn movie. It's the first time I became consciously aware of the song.

Meade said...

"Can anyone name another?"

The Band- Daniel and the Sacred Harp

Known Unknown said...

R.E.M. has a song titled Zither

deborah said...

Wildwood Flower