[musictlk] Auto harp

[Tara Briggs]

Thank you! How did you  tune the autoharp? Do you have perfect pitch? I do not. I wonder if the app talking tuner would work to help me  tune the auto Harp. I think I'll download the app and bring it with me to the music class next week and see if I can play around with tuning it. Obviously, playing an instrument that is not in tune is torture! Oh, and I was looking on YouTube and there's some pretty amazing things you can do with them! You can actually get them to Play melodies!

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> On Jul 5, 2017, at 5:52 PM, Linda Mentink via MusicTlk <musictlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Tara,
> 
> I don't own one, but I've had plenty of experience with them.  We had them at the Wisconsin School for the Visually Handicapped, and one of my jobs was to tune them.  I don't know anything about brands, but, if I were you, I'd get one with the most chord bars so that you will have the most flexibility as to what keys you can play and sing in.  The autoharp will be the same size whether you get only 12 chord bars or more.  I think they may as many as 21, but I'm not sure on that one.  If you purchase one, have lot of fun!
> 
> Blessings,
> 
> Linda
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tara Briggs via MusicTlk <musictlk at nfbnet.org
> To: musictlk at nfbnet.org
> Date sent: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 16:51:20 -0600
> Subject: [musictlk] Auto harp
> 
> Hey everyone! I recently got my kids signed up for a music together class.  Experience has been absolutely fantastic! My family I like to get together and play music.  My uncle is an accomplished keyboard player and my dad is an accomplished guitar player.  I like to sing with them and I play flute.  At the class, the instructor was playing and auto harp.  I got to look at it today and I started playing in a little bit.  I don't have perfect pitch.  I have decent relative pitch.  I can pick somewhat complicated melodies out by ear.  But when it starts to get into a lot of friends and skills I've got to get somebody to spell the notes out for me.  Anyway, I'm thinking about purchasing an auto harp so that I can play along with my family.  Do any of you have experience with this instrument? What are your thoughts and do you have any recommendations for a particular brand.  Is it easy to learn? Like I said, my primary instrument is the flute.  I'm simply wanting to have an instrument that I can use to learn the  so that I can accompany myself and my kids while we sing the songs that my family likes to sing.
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