Precisionsound has released the Alpine Concert Zither, in Kontakt, HALion and SoundFont formats, a common instrument in Alpine Europe but rarely heard nowadays in modern music.
Precisionsound has sampled both the open strings and the fret board strings and a lot of sound effects made by the zither. 257 24-bit stereo/mono wav files are divided into 3 programs and up to 3 velocity layers; 3 programs for HALion/Kontakt (24bit) and 3 programs for SoundFont (16bit) are provided.
Alpine Concert Zither costs $39 (+$11 if you want it on CD).
All formats are included when you buy the SampleSet so you can choose to download both the 24bit Kontakt/HALion programs and the SoundFont (16bit) version if you like now or later on.