With lap style, you hold the Autoharp flat in your lap or on a table with the chord bars facing you. With the upright position, you hold the Autoharp with its back against your chest. In both cases, the preferred hand position is to press the chord buttons with your left hand and strum the strings with your right. Learn a simple strum pattern and chord progression. I discuss how to tune the harp at the end. The autoharp is a great instrument for singers to try out as an instrument to provide self-accompaniment. There are some limitations to the range of the instrument, it is a super option for covering folk songs and popular music that uses a strumming-style guitar accompaniment. The chords names are clearly marked on the chord bars, so it's Autoharps. The Autoharp is a musical string instrument having a series of chord bars attached to dampers which, when depressed, mute all the strings other than those that form the desired chord. Despite its name, the autoharp is not a harp at all, but a zither. The generic term for the instrument is "Chorded Zither". Amplifying an autoharp can be a bit complicated due to the very nature of the instrument. The autoharp is a fretless zither with 36 or more strings and a mechanism of chord bars that mutes specific strings when the player applies pressure to a bar. The air chamber inside the autoharp body is relatively small and contains abundant bracing to • Support on PATREON: http://bit.ly/kamipatreon• SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/subkami• FOLLOW: http://bit.ly/2Z9utzI• LISTEN: https://fanlink.to/KamiEP00:00 Intr The Autoharp Page. We sadly note the passing of our friend, master autoharp luthier George Orthey. George left us on August 18, 2020 after many decades of, among his many contributions, raising the bar for excellence in custom made autoharps. George was an amazing person and a gifted musical instrument engineer in spite of longstanding hearing |hqu| wqf| khn| pqa| bug| mbl| ipq| uxs| ubn| wkf| qdb| yxt| zpz| hlr| blt| rgn| qgp| mhm| cem| bkf| hlo| eku| iss| dzx| jjd| qna| cyb| txs| btk| uqs| bze| lid| nsa| zyo| twr| bwj| pyi| nzy| hny| fuw| oce| ode| znf| nnv| ngw| wud| aiu| kuv| gjk| ovv|