zitheristhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zitherist_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezitherist, n.
Revised 2021

zitheristnoun

  1. 1866–
    A person who plays the zither.
    Stressed as ˈzitherist.
    1. 1866
      The zither was brought forward, and a chair was put for the zitherist, and Herr Crippel stood for a moment behind his chair and bowed.
      A. Trollope in Every Saturday 28 July 101/2
    2. 2017
      The pianist and zitherist Laraaji, who..released some twenty albums in the eighties.
      New Yorker (Nexis) 24 April 98

Originally published as part of the entry for zither, n.

zither, n. was revised in March 2021.