He accompanies his songs with sad chords played on a dodgy zither.

Is the zither a hard instrument to learn?

Tom is a zitherist.

The sound is quite similar to that of a dulcimer, psaltery, or zither.

Mary plays the zither.

Naima Salhi, Larbi Zitout, and the separatists are all enemies of the Berber language and the Algerian nation.

Tom plays the zither.

He accompanies his songs with plaintive chords played on a poor-quality zither.