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Originally Posted by Howard Klepper
From the resemblance to a harp.
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But I don't think they resemble a harp. The strings of a harp are perpendicular to the soundboard but on a "harp" guitar, they are parallel, like a zither. Without frets under the "harp" portion of the guitar, they're exactly like a zither.
I still say they should be called zither guitars.