Even above the sound of the engine I can hear the insistent high-pitched zither of crickets.
While preaching, he often would dance, weep, make animal sounds, strip to his underwear, or play the zither.
Ask any member of the Davenport Zither Ensemble, and you'll hear the real reason they get together every Saturday morning.
Twice a year, during the summer and at Christmastime, the Davenport Zither Ensemble takes hausmusik out of the house, for formal concerts ... sort of.
Temple flutes, guzheng (a Chinese zither) and the two-stringed erhu feature prominently in songs, while the musical score is a conscious mingling of East and West.
In the first half of the concert, the 75 Unhasu musicians performed North Korean pieces including works for traditional stringed instruments the haegum and the zither-like kayagum.
Inside their time-warp home, grandma made cookies, an old Hapsburg grandpa played the zither, and Mom lit the advent wreath while teaching her child the significance of each candle.
In the summer there is no end to a farmer's work, but winter is the time for visiting friends, joking, gossiping and listening to Karli as he plays us a polka on his zither.
The decorative rice cakes at Jilsiru (Insadong St) are works of art, and turn down the nearby alley to sip quince tea in Yetchatjip, a hobbit-sized teashop echoing with water features, songbirds and gayageum (zither) music.
'You will have understood that Solcavsko people do things slowly, they like to take their time, ' says Martina's neighbour Karli, a well-known zither player, as he recounts the story of Luca, whose car was swept away in a flood in 1990.
The radif may be vocal or instrumental, performed on a variety of instruments with different performance techniques including the long- necked lutes ''t?r'' and ''set?r, '' as well as the ''santur'' hammered zither, ''kam?nche'' spike fiddle and ''ney'' reed pipe.
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