The Right String Is Going to Be in There Somewhere (??)
One of my webcam autoharp students began playing melody a couple months ago (after a couple years of singing songs and strumming chords), and the learning curve really got kind…
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Testing Theories
Life has become really interesting around here on both the hammered dulcimer and autoharp fronts. I encourage players of both instruments to embrace what I’ve found. Hammered dulcimer: One of…
A Sonic Music Experience at The TANK
On June 6, 2016, autoharp student Garrett Sullivan and I journeyed to Rangely, Colorado some five hours west of Denver to engage in a recording session at not just…
Clunk Fest
Last week while preparing dinner, I texted briefly with an autoharp friend. (I’d just bought a smartphone and now understand how addicting texting is, now that I don’t have to…
The 2015 Mountain Laurel Autoharp Championship
The 2015 Mountain Laurel Autoharp Championship took place on Friday evening, June 26, during the Mountain Laurel Autoharp Gathering (MLAG) outside Newport, Pennsylvania. A number of folks in the autoharp community…
B&B Lessons: what are they like?
Recently, I posted to Cyberpluckers (the autoharp list serve) about June Fessenden coming here for B&B lessons at the end of May, 2015. One of the listers wrote me privately to ask…
A Beginning Autoharpist’s Great Chord Find
My webcam student, Al, is very much the beginning autoharpist, although I am impressed by the way his harmonic perception is growing. I usually start new players off with singing songs…
At church on Good Friday 2015
On Good Friday morning, I’d re-thought how to play a few measures in “Were You There?” (Where was that idea three weeks ago when I could have burned it into my brain more…
Team Chording: A Phoenix Autoharp Adventure
My second-ever time teaching Team Chording to budding autoharpists took place in Phoenix, Arizona on Friday, February 27, 2015. Every now and then we autoharpists need to stop playing and think about the music…