Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The scheitholt or scheitholz is a traditional German stringed instrument and an ancestor of the modern zither. It falls into the category of drone zithers.The Scheitholt may have derived from an ancient Greek instrument for theoretical education in music and physics, the so called monochord (an oblong wooden box with only one string). Scheitholt originally referred to firewood cut into logs (Scheit = piece, chip; Holz or lower German Holt = wood). Since the 16th century at the latest, the instrument came to be called by this name, presumably because it had a similar shape or size. The best known description of this instrument is by Michael Praetorius in 1619. A number of regional names for the instrument exist.'Hummel' is the predominant Northern German name, meaning bumble-bee (a reference to the humming sound of the drone sounds. Note that the same name was also used of a small kind of German bag pipe for the same reason).

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