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 ...

It's the sound that unites Orson Welles and PJ Harvey What is it? Well. A zither is technically any stringed instrument that has the feature of the strings not extending beyond the soundhole or ...

For many, the autoharp is remembered as the slightly geeky, easy-to-play instrument from grade-school music class, or as the accompaniment for folk and country singers in the late 1950s and '60s. It's ...

New CD Celebrates Masters of Old-Time Autoharp In the 1950s, Mike Seeger sought out and recorded the traditional Southern music of the autoharp, a 36-string instrument small enough to hold in your lap ...

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 ...

Jemma Watton's all set for the festivities. Even the most talented autoharp player doesn't usually get much attention.The instrument itself seems unwilling to assert its identity - built to stand on ...

'Planet Gear' is an irregular feature on DiS, in which we ask musicians to get a bit geeky and talk us through the equipment that makes the 'magic' happen... Tom Fuller, one of the guys I co-produced ...

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 ...

He had been an officer in the United States Army, a veterinarian who operated a zoo for jungle animals, and a professional luthier who hand-crafted his own instruments. But by his own admission, ...

Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington ...

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 ...