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My New Toy
« on: June 02, 2017, 02:42:19 AM »

I don't feel like I'm really qualified to post here but it does seem like the best place to show what I bought today:


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Re: My New Toy
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2017, 03:10:21 AM »

What a lovely instrument. Congratulations.

You play or are learning?
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« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2017, 03:22:00 AM »

Thanks, Moog. I learned to play a bit when I was an early childhood education major in college but I will have to relearn. That was a long time ago, before they even taught education majors how to use computers!
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Re: My New Toy
« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2017, 03:37:35 AM »

That's a nice Autoharp, Kelley.  Oscar Schmidt makes them right.  Congratulations!

John Sebastian has a nice instructional DVD for the 15-chord Autoharp (like mine) to help refresh your memory. 


<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zcNRDfjD9g" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zcNRDfjD9g</a>


You'll have more variety of chords with your 21-chord Autoharp.




Pretty soon, you'll be able to do this...


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and this...


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« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2017, 03:46:21 AM »

June Carter...


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Sheryl Crow...


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« Reply #5 on: June 02, 2017, 04:00:35 AM »

That's a nice Autoharp, Kelley.  Oscar Schmidt makes them right.  Congratulations!

John Sebastian has a nice instructional DVD for the 15-chord Autoharp (like mine) to help refresh your memory.

Thanks, Barry. I think I'd like to order that DVD. But I don't know...I'd be awfully nervous playing in front of John Sebastian.  ;D 


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 ha2ha I'll be happy if I can learn Frère Jacques, the first song in the easiest one of the books that came with it. But before that, there's some tuning that needs to be done. That will be a challenge too but at least it came with the tool. I have a lot to learn!
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« Reply #6 on: June 02, 2017, 04:06:02 AM »

Yeah.  Tuning takes a while.  You'll need a good chromatic tuner.

Then you'll sound like June Carter Cash's mom...


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Re: My New Toy
« Reply #7 on: June 02, 2017, 04:14:23 AM »

You might even get on Hollywood A Go Go...



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Say hi to that dancer in the striped top for me, Kelley.
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« Reply #8 on: June 02, 2017, 04:20:25 AM »

You're almost as goofy as Zal was, Barry! But he was cute and I feel bad about how things ended up for him.
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« Reply #9 on: June 02, 2017, 04:29:02 AM »




Go to the Homespun Website and get yerself this'n here DVD.  He teaches the Autoharp well.  I have a 30 year old VHS version and watch it from time to time.  He's pretty entertaining!


https://www.homespun.com/
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« Reply #10 on: June 02, 2017, 04:36:06 AM »

An' when you git tired of holdin' it upright, why you can set in on yer lap...


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Re: My New Toy
« Reply #11 on: June 02, 2017, 07:18:38 AM »

Thanks, Moog. I learned to play a bit when I was an early childhood education major in college but I will have to relearn. That was a long time ago, before they even taught education majors how to use computers!

Much better to learn autoharp than computers  ;)

Enjoy relearning. Before long you'll be sitting in front of a roaring fire, strumming away and singing about something romantic.

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« Reply #12 on: June 02, 2017, 07:20:21 AM »

Maybe not singing this though...

https://youtu.be/EE3gg1cUYr0
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« Reply #13 on: June 03, 2017, 07:08:28 PM »

Maybe not singing this though...

 ha2ha No, there's nothing romantic about any of that song! I've always meant to watch that movie. I put it away many times when I was a re-shelver, aka a page, at my former library job and thought it looked funny.
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« Reply #14 on: June 04, 2017, 04:37:58 AM »

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« Reply #15 on: June 04, 2017, 06:39:34 AM »

ha2ha No, there's nothing romantic about any of that song! I've always meant to watch that movie. I put it away many times when I was a re-shelver, aka a page, at my former library job and thought it looked funny.

It is quite funny if a little more low key than Spinal Tap.
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« Reply #16 on: June 05, 2017, 01:44:36 AM »

Spinal Tap?  Oh, I see.  Lumbar puncture, between L3 and L4
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« Reply #17 on: June 05, 2017, 05:53:06 AM »

Wow! I had no idea an auto harp could be played like that. He's very talented.
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« Reply #18 on: June 05, 2017, 06:04:05 AM »

He's a virtuoso.  He was playing the melody and background accompaniment at the same time!
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