Autoharp Music Tips and Autoharp Links
Welcome to the Autoharp Music Directory. Contact me if you would like to have your link added to my directory.
Autoharp Communities
Diatonic Autoharp - Things 'n Stuff
A new list setup by autoharpist/luthier, Bob Lewis, designed for those who prefer playing diatonic autoharps like Bryan Bowers, and many others.
Arizona Autoharp Club
Based in Phoenix, AZ, the club always welcomes new members of all skill levels... even if you've never picked up an autoharp, but are ready to learn, you can come and check us out! We have no dues for club participation. We play a variety of music, though most of it tends to be old-time or folk, and we encourage each person to share his favorite kind of music.
Autoharp Webring
The Autoharp WebRing is a collection of sites on the World Wide Web that have something to do with autoharps, autoharp-related equipment and supplies, the music played on autoharps, people who play autoharps, even people who LIKE autoharps. If you've got a Web site that meets one or more of those criteria, you, too, can join the fun.
UK Autoharp
Autoharp resources for autoharpists in the United Kingdom.
Cyberpluckers
THE discussion list for autoharpists. If you have any questions at all about the autoharp, someone on this list will be able to help you out.
Terry Johnson's Autoharp Friends
Wonderful community of autoharp information. Terry is very active in promoting the autoharp community.
The Bowers' Arts in the Woods
An educational non-profit organization formed to develop artistic expression in an enchanting wooded environment, to enhance personal enrichment through innovative, diverse, multi-generational, multi-cultural, non-denominational arts education and to emphasize the importance of The Arts in fostering self-esteem, communication, cooperation and cross-cultural tolerance. Features "Autoharp Recording Project," by nearly 50 outstanding autoharpers. Documents the breadth of music made on the autoharp.
Autoharp Education
Autoharp FAQ
This FAQ is gathered from discussions found on CyberPluckers, the Autoharp Mailing List. Please see the Cyberplucker's link below for how to subscribe or additional information.
Autoharp Conversion Tutorial
Here's a great photo-tutorial about removing those big plastic chordbar units that come stock on Oscar Schmidt Autoharps, and installing a custom set of chordbars. Also covers how to change from a chromatic tuning, where 5 or 6 strings ring per chord, to a diatonic tuning, where 10 or more strings can ring per chord.
Autoharp Quarterly
For any serious autoharpist! The Autoharp Quarterly is the definitive guide for the autoharp enthusiast. You'll find out exactly what's happening in the autoharp world and plus learn to play the autoharp from some of the nations best autoharpists
Autoharp Teacher's List
This FAQ is gathered from discussions found on CyberPluckers, the Autoharp Mailing List. Please see the Cyberplucker's link below for how to subscribe or additional information.
Autoharp Teacher Cathy Britell
Website for people just getting started with the autoharp. It features a monthly education series by Cathy Britell on how to play a specific song. It's designed for those who don't read music easily.
The True History of the Autoharp
Once thought to be the invention of Charles F. Zimmerman, there is a new person to whom credit is given for the autoharp.
Autoharp Gatherings and Festivals
Autoharp Spring Fling & Open Showcase 2005
A one-day celebration of the autoharp that includes workshops, an open
showcase for autoharpists, and a full evening of entertainment featuring
main performers of the autoharp.
Held in the Central
Valley of northern California. Details coming soon!
Autoharp Jamboree
Three days of
workshops, concerts, lots of jamming on the courthouse square and all over
town, great places to eat and good fellowship taking place in mid-June.
California Autoharp Gathering
California Autoharp Gathering takes place in Mid-May. Barn Dance with 200 Dancers - Open Stage - Concerts - Hands-on Workshops
Jamming - Singing - Children’s Concert - Extra Autoharps Available for Workshops
Indoor Plumbing - Sunshine - Air Conditioning - Harper’s Bazaar - Hot Showers
Catered Food Available for Purchase On-Site - Free Parking
Autoharp luthiers and other appropriate music-related vendors welcome!
California Bluegrass Association MUSIC CAMP
The 2nd Annual California Bluegrass Association MUSIC CAMP JUNE 9-12, 2002 GRASS VALLEY, CA AUTOHARPERS! Ray Frank is back by popular demand at the CBA Music Camp, teaching a class to beginning and intermediate autoharp players. Beginner and intermediate instrumental classes; jams, electives CONTACT: Ingrid Noyes, camp director, 707-878-2415 or ingrid@svn.net Website: www.cbamusiccamp.org
Northwest Folklife
This is a huge fest in the Seattle Center. There are some autoharp-ish
happenings there that are scattered about. There'll be a big
multi-autoharpist panel this year. Takes place May 23-26
SAMFest
Down-home meets downtown when musicians with acoustic instruments get together to play traditional music at SAM Fest in Houston, TX. When folks get together for a good time, whether they’re city folks or country folks, there’s nothing that brings them together in a stronger bond than sharing food and music, including several autoharp workshops.
Walnut Valley Festival
Annual folk music festival in Winfield, Kansas taking place in mid-September.
Willamette Valley Autoharp Gathering
Three fun-filled Days of Hands-on Workshops, Open Stages, Jamming, Singing, and Evening Concerts in Albany, Oregon
Autoharpists Bands and Musicians
Marc Gunn - Celtic Songs & Folk Music Downloads
Bard Marc Gunn performs Celtic Folk music and Filk on autoharp and a cappella. Free MP3 songs. Funny and romantic poetry. Free digital photography pictures of nature, fine art, and people.
Brobdingnagian Bards - Irish and Scottish Folk Songs, Fantasy & Filk
Renaissance in Celtic music. #1 indie Celtic music band with three milliond Celtic MP3 downloads. Scottish and Irish songs, Tolkien music, and Dr Demento Ren Faire comedy. Newsletter features free MP3s monthly. Features autoharp music of Marc Gunn
Autoharp Lady - Carol Stober
Carol Stober is multi-instrumental musician, entertainer, teacher and recording artist. Her music covesr a broad range of styles including bluegrass, country, folk, mountain music, traditional, and gospel. She has taught Autoharp workshops, judged Autoharp competitions at major festifvals and performed at festivals, museums, churches, country music theatres, and theme parks.
Autoharp Legacy
A 3-CD set documenting the diversity of styles currently being performed on the autoharp, a multi-stringed acoustic instrument of American origin. 55 of the best-known performers of the autoharp from around the world gathered in Nashville, Tennessee to record an outstanding musical anthology that features this unique and versatile instrument. This is the album every autoharpist should own!
Barbara Giamalvo
From Raytown, Mo now residing in Gilbert, Az. Have enjoyed playing autoharp for many years. Looking forward to hearing from old friends and new ones.
Bill Bryant
Bill Bryant, a unique individual, with a gift very few people are given - to play an instrument few people can play, to create music that has to have come straight from the Lord, and to have friends to share that music on this, his third album. A total of twelve musicians and seventeen singers joined in this venture to create a somewhat new style of Christian music. Strong messages with sometimes mellow, sometimes driving instrumentals make this an album to listen to over and over again.
Bryan Bowers
Premier master autoharpist and touring musician. Widely recognized as THE BEST autoharpist today.
Ageless Harmony
Experience roots music played inÊa traditional way with Mary Park on the autoharp.
Carol Stober
Carol Stober is multi-instrumental musician, entertainer, teacher and recording artist. Her music covesr a broad range of styles including bluegrass, country, folk, mountain music, traditional, and gospel. She has taught Autoharp workshops, judged Autoharp competitions at major festifvals and performed at festivals, museums, churches, country music theatres, and theme parks.
Doofus
Doofus might mean "village idiot" to some, but it's really a token of our affection for each other and the music we make together!æ We are a lively old time band consisting of two couples: Neal & Coleen Walters and John & Heidi Cerrigione.æ Together we sing and play guitar, autoharp, mountain and hammered dulcimer, fiddle, banjo, mandolin, and acoustic bass.
Evo Bluestein
Multi-instrumentalist and singer Evo Bluestein brings to his music a rich legacy of American folk tradition, brilliant interpretation and original composition. Considered one of this country's most accomplished Appalachian-style autoharpists, Bluestein is equally known as a performer and teacher of oldtime fiddle, button accordion, guitar and banjo. His repertoire includes songs derived from Appalachian, Cajun, zydeco, blues and other styles of music.
Foot in the Air String Band
We're an old time string band, centered at the meeting of Ohio, WV, and Ky.We play the authentic Appalachian music we grew up with, on hammered dulcimer, mandolin, autoharp, guitar and bass.
Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers on Autoharp
Do you love Irish Drinking Songs? Are you like me, a kitty cat lover fanatic? Put those together and you have Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers, a CD for the wonderfully demented kitty cat fantatic. Listen to music you've heard on St. Patrick's Day or by The Dubliners, The Clancy Brothers, The Wolfe Tones, and the Irish rovers. Then laugh as all your favorite Irish Drinking Songs are rewriten with Cat song lyrics. Your love of Celtic music will never be the same!
John and Kathie Hollandsworth
John Hollandsworth has played autoharp since childhood and has taught and performed across the US and in England. He and wife Kathie, who performs with him, are from the Appalachian Mountains in Southwest Virginia.
Jo Ann Smith
From traditional tunes to contemporary ballads, Jo Ann's expressive technique and inspired arrangements have won her wide acclaim, and
demonstrate without question that the autoharp is an instrument capable of
serious music. Best known for her solo work featuring tasteful use of
non-standard chords, Jo Ann also performs with the acoustic folk music
group, "Pocket Change". Her latest CD, "Rhythm of the Rain", features
some of her best-known autoharp arrangements backed up by talented local
musicians on bass, guitar and mandolin. Jo Ann performs regularly
throughout her local region, and also gives group workshops and private
autoharp instruction.
Karen Mueller
Nationally touring autoharpist. The Minneapolis-based musician presents concerts and workshops in a variety of settings, from concert halls to elementary schools. Considered one of the finest players of her instruments in the country, she creates dynamic, finely-crafted arrangements of Appalachian, Celtic and contemporary tunes. She also plays guitar, bass dulcimer, mandolin and bouzouki, and is in demand as an instructor as well as performer.
Les Gustafson-Zook
This former National Autoharp Champion has an instinct for using the right fills and riffs to appropriately grace each melody -- not to mention having a flair for artful arrangement.æ His playing is both creative and captivating, with inventive little twists and turns in timing ever holding the listener‰s attention.æ The interjection of occasional bouncy, syncopated licks and rhythms further displays his consistent precision and expressiveness. - Eileen Roys, Autoharp Clearinghouse, Nov. ë94
Mark Teegardin
Another Autoharp Site
Mark Teegardin's site including DIY Autoharp Repair guide.
Marti Rogers
Accompanying herself on the guitar, the mountain dulcimer, or the Autoharp, Marti Rogers sings a wide variety of songs in the folk genre from purely traditional to contemporary including some of her own composition.
Mary Umbarger
Mary Umbarger performs with alone and with The Front Porch Strings, playing old-time, Celtic, and jazz on the autoharp. She is a winnner of many competitions including Galax Old Fiddlers Convention, Mt. Airy Fiddlers Convention, Union Grove Fiddlers Convnention, Loch Norman Scottish Games Harp Competition and the North Carolina State Fair. She teachs workshops in autoharp, bowed psaltry, and fiddle tunes on the autoharp in old time and Celtic music. (Added: 26-Aug-2003 Hits: 71 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
Mountain Fling
A 4-piece band featuring autoharp, guitar, banjo, harmonica, hammered dulcimer, and vocals. John Hollandsworth is the autoharpist. Based in southwest Virginia, Mountain Fling performs regularly in their home area and beyond.
Pacific Crest Pioneer Band
Northwest music, featuring:
Kay Waite, Darrell Johnson, & Tim Dawdy
The Pacific Crest Pioneer Band combines Bluegrass, Irish, Old-time, and Western traditions into their Northwest musical sound.
Sweet Water Folk
Cindy Funk of Sweetwater has been weaving autoharp in and out of the group's music for over fifteen years. The 'harp is the melody and harmony backing that sets off the other instruments: guitar, mtn. dulcimer, bass, pennywhistle and more.
The Bard Rocks
The songster, Roland Vinyard, known as The Bard Rocks (or is it The Barred Rocks?), has finally decided to take his act public after 40 years of playing in closets, under rugs, and when he thought no one was around. Infamous for protest songs (when he sang, everyone protested), The Bard Rocks now specializes in the songs of the acclaimed songwriter Trad. Anon.
The Earth Tones
The Earth Tones are a folk band composed of Environmental Protection Agency employees, who first performed together to celebrate Earth Day on April 22, 1996. We play an eclectic mix of old-time country, bluegrass, Celtic, and folk-pop. Band members include: Karen Reshkin (fiddle, vocals), John Haugland (banjo, vocals), Peter Swenson (guitar, vocals), Bill Tong(autoharp, vocals), Rich Murawski (drums, percussion), Jim Van der Kloot (mandolin).
The Kilby Brothers
American folk to classic rock similiar to that of the late 60's and early 70's, including some autoharp songs.
Tina Louise Barr
Tina is well-known for her trademark clarity and high-geared performances on the autoharp. Her remarkable versatility shows no limits in her range of musical styles. Regarded as an innovator in her field, Tina Louise Barr performs and gives autoharp workshops across the U.S.
WOLFF
American folk to classic rock similiar to that of the late 60's and early 70's, including some autoharp songs.
Miscellaneous
Austin Computer Repair Services
I got my first Austin computer in 1995. It was made by an Uptime Computer Repair Services technician at Office Depot, named Andrew McKee. I'm pleased to say I was his very first Austin computer repair customer.
KindWeb.com
Music Resources, Band Links, Musicians Finder, Events Calendar, Venues Finder, Activism, Natural Health, a Great Search Engine, and more...
A Free Music Downloads Ezine
Free Music Downloads is a free monthly mp3 music ezine featuring great free mp3s by some incredible artists. I started publishing Free Music Downloads because every time I went looking for free music downloads, all I ever found were websiets with pop-ups galore. It pissed me off. So I determined to put together a newsletter that could guide free music download lovers to free music downloads without the nauseating pop-up ads.
ezFolk.com
Richard Hefner’s instructional site for banjo, guitar, ukulele, and harmonica. The ezFolk website contains hundreds of pages of tablatures and tutorials as well as the ezFolk Link Directory, with links to more than 2500 music sites!
Marc Gunn's Photo Pictures
An assortment of photos and pictures from Marc Gunn of the Brobdingnagian Bards. Autoharp pictures, Travels, adventures, live performances, art, LOTR Oscar Parties, Renaissance festivals, Sci Fi Conventions and more!
Autoharp Shopping
Autoharps through Amazon.com
Amazon.com has affiliate with a variety of online music instrument retailers and offers some of the best prices for autoharps online. Very affordable and of course easy shopping.
Autoharp Repair, Customization & Supplies
Outstanding customization of Oscar Schmidt autoharps. Services include: Custom Action Hold Down System, Refelting, Restringing, and diatonic conversions.
Musicmaker's Autochord
Build your own autoharp. Instruction kit for an autochord featuring 38 strings, including double bass strings for more body.
Autoharp Security Blankets
Cozy blankets for your precious musical instruments. My cozies insulate and provide the extra padding you have always wished your case provided.
A layer of "space blanket" protection can be added to help guard against temperature fluctuations particularly when traveling with your 'harp. Be aware it will add a crinkly sound when handled.
Autoharp Soft Case
Save your autoharp from heat, cold, and moisture with our insulated, padded, weather-tight soft case. A large music pocket on the outside, backpack straps, and webbing handles make it convenient. Choose your color on the Order page.
Blue Ridge Autoharps
Blue Ridge Autoharps are handcrafted from the finest select spruce and hand-picked hardwoods. Each instrument is custom-outfitted to the buyer's choice of woods, set-up, and chord arrangement. Custom string sets are available. Browse this site for options, and contact us with any questions or to order.
d'Aigle Autoharp
These autoharps are the result of years of development. Computer aided design and old world craftsmanship combine to create an autoharp of beauty and functionality with a sound that is crisp, clear and bold, yet mellow in tone.
Each 'harp is built from the finest materials available, handcrafted to demanding detail and tolerances.
Glad Morning Autoharps
Autoharps designed and individually built by Gordon Baker in his shop in Amelia, Ohio. His autoharps are original designs which were developed to offer advantages over conventional autoharps. There are three standard models, custom instruments are built, and baritone autoharps have just been developed. The standard models include a model specifically for right handed lap style playing, a comfortable model for the upright playing style, and a small autoharp intended for children.
JustStrings.com
JustStrings.com has the world's largest selection of instrument strings. They carry the full line of strings from dozens of different string manufacturers.
Lumbert Mountain Music
Hello! My name is Buck Lumbert - Luthier, retired machinist, conversationalist. The preceding in no particular order! I started building autoharps in 1985, when Lois (my wife) decided she had to have a diatonic 'harp. I've built and experimented with 'harps ever since. I am not a serious autoharp player myself, but I do play a little. I just retired from a lifetime career as a machinist, and intend to devote most of my time to building autoharps from now on!
Oscar Schmidt
The Autoharp is truly an American instrument in origin. It's birth from the chorded Zither to present day diatonic & chromatic instruments, attest to the popularity and versatility of the Autoharp worldwide. World-reknown manufacturer of the autoharp.
Timbre Line Music
Timbre Line Music markets American Heritage Autoharp Strings. These strings, manufactured by American Winding Co., are made on the same machines as Oscar Schmidt Autoharp strings and are the same in every respect, except price.
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