autoharp frenzy
I got an autoharp on eBay a couple of weeks back. It was cheap, but fairly beat up. 32 of the 36 1970s-vintage strings were intact, if very tarnished. I spent more on new strings and a tuning wrench at...
View Articlesupplies!
Pleasantly surprised that a local store – Scarboro Music, at Vic Park and Kingston has autoharp strings. It also has a very fine old Dobson banjo for $1500.
View Articlethe joy of craigslist
2 hours 23km driven $3 parking $8 sandwich dinner $3 coffee … all wasted waiting for a silly wee lassie who’d agreed to meet to sell an autoharp, then sold it out from under me. Real smooth move,...
View Articleoliver postgate’s world
Sad to hear that Oliver Postgate passed away. Bagpuss was my series; it started just as I started school, and I caught the first episodes. I spent the whole evening learning the theme on the mandolin,...
View Articletoo many instruments
I just counted, and found out that my instrument collection has 115 strings. I think I should thin the herd.
View ArticleBob Briehl, the autoharp man in Canada
After ferrying Catherine around for another exciting adventure in LibraryQuest, we took my autoharps to Appalachian Instruments in Oakville for a repair. I have half expecting Bob to declare at least...
View ArticleLinda Parker Hamilton — The Northern Nightingale: A Canadian Whistler
She whistles, plays autoharp, and lives locally: Linda Parker Hamilton — The Northern Nightingale.
View ArticleThe Yonge & St Clair Autoharp Guy
This guy sets up on the SE corner of Yonge & St Clair most afternoons, and plays endless variations on the above recording. He’s playing an autoharp with the chord bars removed, and run through a...
View ArticleSynthesizing simple chords with sox
SoX can do almost anything with audio files — including synthesize audio from scratch. Unfortunately, SoX’s syntax is more than a bit hard to follow, and the manual page isn’t the most clear. But there...
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