Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/07/08

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Harry Lime!
From: boulanger.croissant at gmail.com (Peter Klein)
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2017 22:11:14 -0700
 
This zither belonged to Anton Karas, the Viennese zither player who 
wrote the music for "The Third Man," including the famous 'Harry Lime 
Theme.'  It's not the actual instrument played in the film, but I'm sure 
that Harry's theme was played on it many times.  Please, no jokes about 
cuckoo clocks.
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The zither was in a very dark corner of a small, badly-lit room just 
outside the main collection.

This was taken in the Kunsthistoriches Museum Wien's collection of 
musical instruments, which has instruments dating from medieval times to 
the near-present.  Blessedly, they allow photography as long as you 
don't use flash or tripod.  I spent several hours there over two days 
photographing everything I could, with special emphasis on the 
woodwinds, and of course, bassoons.

--Peter