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Title: My New Toy
Post by: KelMar 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:


(http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee372/KelMar1963/IMG_0423_zpsehony7et.jpg)
Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: Moogmodule on June 02, 2017, 03:10:21 AM
What a lovely instrument. Congratulations.

You play or are learning?
Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: KelMar 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!
Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: Hello Goodbye 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. 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zcNRDfjD9g# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zcNRDfjD9g#)

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




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


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaqRwFyoGgQ# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaqRwFyoGgQ#)


and this...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcL8yFzHd8o# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcL8yFzHd8o#)




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Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: Hello Goodbye on June 02, 2017, 03:46:21 AM
June Carter...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIUR-dQEzwQ# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIUR-dQEzwQ#)



Sheryl Crow...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXErvTMNrM4# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXErvTMNrM4#)
Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: KelMar on June 02, 2017, 04:00:35 AM
Quote from: Hello Goodbye 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.

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

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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!
Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: Hello Goodbye 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...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3-lYiKF_tw# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3-lYiKF_tw#)



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Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: Hello Goodbye on June 02, 2017, 04:14:23 AM
You might even get on Hollywood A Go Go...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPPVuFEU4fI# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPPVuFEU4fI#)


Say hi to that dancer in the striped top for me, Kelley.
Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: KelMar 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.
Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: Hello Goodbye on June 02, 2017, 04:29:02 AM
(https://target.scene7.com/is/image/Target/11519611?wid=3000&qlt=70&fmt=pjpeg)


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/ (https://www.homespun.com/)
Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: Hello Goodbye 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...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqft7YlHTKo# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqft7YlHTKo#)
Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: Moogmodule on June 02, 2017, 07:18:38 AM
Quote from: In My Life 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!

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.

Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: Moogmodule on June 02, 2017, 07:20:21 AM
Maybe not singing this though...

https://youtu.be/EE3gg1cUYr0 (https://youtu.be/EE3gg1cUYr0)
Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: KelMar on June 03, 2017, 07:08:28 PM
Quote from: Moogmodule on June 02, 2017, 07:20:21 AM
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.
Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: Hello Goodbye on June 04, 2017, 04:37:58 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=issQMeNinIQ# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=issQMeNinIQ#)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiSiL1Pav3I# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiSiL1Pav3I#)
Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: Moogmodule on June 04, 2017, 06:39:34 AM
Quote from: In My Life on June 03, 2017, 07:08:28 PM
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.
Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: Hello Goodbye on June 05, 2017, 01:44:36 AM
Spinal Tap?  Oh, I see.  Lumbar puncture, between L3 and L4
Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: KelMar 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.
Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: Hello Goodbye on June 05, 2017, 06:04:05 AM
He's a virtuoso.  He was playing the melody and background accompaniment at the same time!
Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: Hello Goodbye on June 06, 2017, 05:14:00 AM
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/56/ad/c9/56adc921f768b6417eadb2acda45c50b.jpg)


(http://68.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp68fuJWfk1qedhfho1_500.jpg)


(http://www.therandomframe.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/JS-188LR.jpg)
Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: KelMar on June 06, 2017, 04:59:22 PM
^^^
I like him.  :)
Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: Hello Goodbye on June 06, 2017, 11:19:16 PM
^

For a while, in 1965, they were bigger than.....The Beatles   ;)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVYPR9FfNh0# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVYPR9FfNh0#)


I reckon it was the Autoharp.

Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: Hello Goodbye on June 06, 2017, 11:32:34 PM
Yes, yes!  It's here!  It's out of mothballs!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzF_EKKSRfY# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzF_EKKSRfY#)



(http://i68.tinypic.com/52xlx0.jpg)

Oscar Schmidt OS100-15
Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: Hello Goodbye on June 06, 2017, 11:34:31 PM
And another way of playing the Autoharp...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aORE48Nmkcc# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aORE48Nmkcc#)
Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: Hello Goodbye on June 06, 2017, 11:40:05 PM
The Critters had a hit with Younger Girl in 1966...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEx3y20jo20# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEx3y20jo20#)




But John Sebastian wrote it for the Autoharp...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A4ryopsuxg# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A4ryopsuxg#)

I think it's the nicer version.
Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: Hello Goodbye on June 08, 2017, 05:28:09 AM
I hope you're having a good time relearning Autoharp, Kelley.


Here's my Oscar Schmidt OS100-15 Autoharp with its Oscar Schmidt magnetic pick-up...



(http://oi67.tinypic.com/167v7sx.jpg)



(http://i68.tinypic.com/2mfaw6c.jpg)

Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: Hello Goodbye on June 08, 2017, 05:30:36 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL7XdoS5Je4# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL7XdoS5Je4#)



(http://i67.tinypic.com/2d0drpt.jpg)



If you believe in magic don't bother to choose
If it's jug band music or rhythm and blues
Just go and listen it'll start with a smile
It won't wipe off your face no matter how hard you try
Your feet start tapping and you can't seem to find
How you got there, so just blow your mind



Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: Hello Goodbye on June 13, 2017, 04:24:41 AM
How are you makin' out with that chorded zither, Kelley?
Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: KelMar on June 13, 2017, 04:47:43 AM
Quote from: Hello Goodbye on June 13, 2017, 04:24:41 AM
How are you makin' out with that chorded zither, Kelley?

Well, Barry....I'm afraid it's been languishing in its case. Life has been a bit on the hectic side here but I am hoping for a quiet weekend to come along so I can get to it. Tonight, though, I've really enjoyed all the videos you shared. I agree that The Lovin' Spoonful's version of Younger Girl is best. That song always stops me in my tracks; I love it.
Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: Hello Goodbye on June 13, 2017, 11:40:55 PM
Yeah.  Younger Girl is some song alright.  Sounds good on guitar too...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0N8F21QBwk# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0N8F21QBwk#)
1970



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otGeucrcdWE# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otGeucrcdWE#)
2016



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Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: Hello Goodbye on June 13, 2017, 11:51:46 PM
^

But I wish he took his Autoharp out of mothballs for that one.



An older girl can sometimes spell trouble...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNHQYPhdPlE# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNHQYPhdPlE#)


 ;D


Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: Hello Goodbye on June 14, 2017, 12:00:08 AM
Non-Autoharp...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO1_Th8kt9U# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO1_Th8kt9U#)
Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: KelMar on June 14, 2017, 12:32:01 AM
Quote from: Hello Goodbye on June 13, 2017, 11:40:55 PM
Yeah.  Younger Girl is some song alright.  Sounds good on guitar too...
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Yeah, it does. I like what he did there in that video from last year. Eddie's Attic looks like a fun place. But I bet it's really hot in Decatur, GA. ;D
Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: Hello Goodbye on June 14, 2017, 02:16:30 AM
He bluesed it up a bit there with a picking technique similar to what I learned from Ian Buchanan (although John Sebastian is using three fingers rather than the two-finger style Ian taught me).  But remember, he was part of the same Greenwich Village scene Ian Buchanan, David Von Ronk, Bob Dylan and others were in during the early 1960s...


(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fk38zWOHYr0/U4NLUn7fncI/AAAAAAAAUJg/9M08bihS3Ao/s1600/10004051_564134310371544_1435197534452627169_n.jpg)


(https://www.douglasrgilbert.com/xm_client/client_images/galleries/E012-36%20Dylan.png)


(http://referentiel.nouvelobs.com/file/6595968-le-vrai-llewyn-davis.jpg)




They shared their guitar styles.  John Sebastian even has a few blues guitar instructional DVDs out...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwya-_QbYIc# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwya-_QbYIc#)


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Title: Re: My New Toy
Post by: KelMar on June 14, 2017, 04:20:40 AM
Quote from: Hello Goodbye on June 14, 2017, 12:00:08 AM
Non-Autoharp...

Wow! If it has strings he can play it.