For many, the autoharp is remembered as the slightly geeky, easy-to-play instrument from grade-school music class, or as the accompaniment for folk and country singers in the late 1950s and '60s. It's ...

Autoharp enthusiasts will be invading Perry County for the 23rd annual Mountain Laurel Autoharp Gathering from June 26-30. The autoharp is a zither - a string instrument in which the strings do not ...

Everyone has dreams but not everyone achieves them. Ray Choi has. Choi is one of the world’s top autoharp players, and he demonstrated it at the 2017 Mountain Laurel Autoharp Championship, according ...

He had been an officer in the United States Army, a veterinarian who operated a zoo for jungle animals, and a professional luthier who hand-crafted his own instruments. But by his own admission, ...

Most buskers provide a soundtrack to the rush-hour commute playing a saxophone or guitar, but busker Darryl Minsky does it with an unusual instrument called an autoharp. The former computer consultant ...

Most musicians, if pressed to name a virtuoso of the autoharp, would probably come up with Bryan Bowers’ name. Bowers performs original and traditional folk music on his instrument with the flair and ...

MOUNT DORA — For Ruth Harnden, no musical note can what’s emitted from one of America’s earliest musical instruments — the mountain or Appalachian dulcimer. “It produces a sweet, easy, acoustic sound, ...

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