My New Toy

[KelMar]

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:

[Moogmodule]

What a lovely instrument. Congratulations.

You play or are learning?

[KelMar]

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!

[Hello Goodbye]

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#

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#


and this...


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




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[Hello Goodbye]

June Carter...


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



Sheryl Crow...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXErvTMNrM4#

[KelMar]

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.   

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!

[Hello Goodbye]

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#



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[Hello Goodbye]

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



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


Say hi to that dancer in the striped top for me, Kelley.

[KelMar]

You're almost as goofy as Zal was, Barry! But he was cute and I feel bad about how things ended up for him.

[Hello Goodbye]

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/

[Hello Goodbye]

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


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqft7YlHTKo#

[Moogmodule]

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.

[Moogmodule]

Maybe not singing this though...

https://youtu.be/EE3gg1cUYr0

[KelMar]

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.

[Hello Goodbye]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=issQMeNinIQ#


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiSiL1Pav3I#