The "guitar" / zither used by Dr. Sevrin's follower, Adam (Charles Napier [yes, the tough-as-nails military character actor, known for Blue Brothers, Rambo: First Blood, Part 2, the Austin Powers movies, and Silence of the Lambs]).
Excerpt from the script to Way to Eden: Three (of the Space Hippies) were sprawled about, Dr. Sevrin sitting on a med-bed, listening to the puckish youth, Adam, who was tuning something that looked like a zither, a musical instrument with a sound box with several strings attached to a fret-board, like a small guitar.
Edit 3-15-25: Switched the 'arms' right-side-up and rebuilt the upper handle, adding the buttons, as well as 'hidden' most of the lines, except for the strings.
And yes, I am an oddity: The Way to Eden is my #1 favorite episode of the original series, for many reasons, first of which is that it was one of two TOS episodes that I owned in 1991, having paid $5 for Way to Eden and Wolf in the Fold at the San Jose Berryessa Flea Market.
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