[musictlk] Auto harp

[Linda Mentink]

Hi Tara,

I do not have absolute pitch.  I tune the first octave or so with 
the piano, and then theest with the octave I tuned to the piano.

I don't know anything about talking tuners, but they should work.

Yes, you can play melodies on them.  In fact, Maybell Carter 
(that dates me) held it by placing the flat end on her lap, and 
the autoharp leaned against her upper body.

Blessings,

Linda


 ----- Original Message -----
From: Tara Briggs via MusicTlk <musictlk at nfbnet.org
To: Music Talk Mailing List for Blind Musicians 
<musictlk at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 21:34:16 -0600
Subject: Re: [musictlk] Auto harp

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!

Sent from my iPhone

 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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