Most people's experiences with the autoharp begin and end with grade school sing-a-longs. But in the 1950s, a man named Mike Seeger proved that you can play real music on the small, 36-string ...

GARDEN GROVE – You probably never heard of Ray Choi. He runs a little music shop in Garden Grove, where he sells an odd instrument with 37 strings. It looks like a zither, which is to say it resembles ...

Most buskers provide a soundtrack to the rush-hour commute playing a saxophone or guitar, but busker Darryl Minsky does it with an unusual instrument called an autoharp. The former computer consultant ...

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Want to hear some mean autoharp? Bryan Bowers is your man. Bowers, an acknowledged master of the instrument (which despite its name isn't a harp, but a zither), will perform on Wednesday at Savannah's ...

Everyone has dreams but not everyone achieves them. Ray Choi has. Choi is one of the world’s top autoharp players, and he demonstrated it at the 2017 Mountain Laurel Autoharp Championship, according ...

Bryan Bowers was attending a jug band party in Richmond, Virginia, when a physician who loved folk music brought out an autoharp. “He started playing ‘Shady Grove,’ an old English song. And the ...

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