The Autoharp Blog

A blog for all things autoharp! I'm an autoharp player and while I'm by no means an expert, I know a lot about autoharps and their maintenance. I also run the youtube channel theautoharpvlog. Let's raise awareness for such an awesome instrument!

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Bad autoharp insult

You’re like the guitar pick on my autoharp; you bring out the worst in me and make me sound like crap.

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Episode 2: Intro to Strum Patterns

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Here is my cover of Ain’t No Grave by Crowder!

I really love this song and I hope you enjoy.

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Autoharp book recommendation

I’m mostly self-taught, but this book, You Can Teach Yourself Autoharp, has been a great resource. It walks you step-by-step through different strum patterns as well as talking about useful things like how to change strings and different styles of picking. It’s also pretty cheap, so if you want a good autoharp book to work though, I’d recommend it.

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Unfortunately my webcam doesn’t record autoharps very well, which makes me sad.

However, I will try and modify my strum patterns so it’s not excruciatingly tinny when I record videos.

The first will be the Crowder song “Ain’t No Grave” from their album Neon Steeple. So stay tuned!

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Episode 1: Introduction to Autoharp (as well as me)

Next episode: Common strum patterns!

Stay tuned!

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Skye Boat Song by Jo Ann Smith on a diatonic autoharp.

Her youtube channel is really great, and I love her playing!

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This is what the chord buttons on my autoharp look like. All are original except for the first two in the bottom row. I changed those from A flat major and B flat seventh to B minor and F# minor because you use those two a lot more. I’ve also refelted several of my chord bars, and will show you how in a later video.

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This is a picture of my personal autoharp Hobbes. 

It’s a 21-chord Oscar Schmidt that I’ve since modified with some changes to the chords, which I’ll discuss in a later video.

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Ta da! Thus The Autoharp Blog is born! :)