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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Originally released on the LP Mountain music played on autoharp, Folkways FA 2365, 1962 (principally), and FA 2315, 1957; includes 14 previously unissued tracks. Compact disc. Program notes by Mike ...

The 27th annual Mountain Laurel Autoharp Gathering takes place June 21-25, 2017 at Little Buffalo State Park Campground near Newport, Pa. It's the largest gathering of autoharp enthusiasts in the ...

'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 ...

It was a musician’s worst fear. Instead of making last minute preparations for their performances at the Mountain Laurel Autoharp Gathering last month, Bob Grappel and Lynda Cohen found themselves in ...