Now add some pretty little plucks...wherever you want them, it doesn't matter. Thats the nice thing about autoharp...anywhere you like....!

why thank you....glad it's helping.

He might take donations! lol I wish he could start a nonprofit so you could sign up on Amazon Smile and when you buy things Amazon donates to him!

Very cool to find you! May start playing again :)

Hi! Go to my website, www.halweeks.com all thw info is there

Welcome to Autoharp! There are any number of adjustments/things that can need fixing on a used autoharp...unfortunately. Sellers usually don't know about those things, because they themselves don't play. Check out my video on buying an autoharp, where I explain why....but actually buying used is one of the better options these days, because vintage harps can be better in the long run than new harps....again, watch the video for why. As far as your left handedness goes, I'm a lefty, and learned to play right. But if you want to play left, you might have advantages over the right handed person, especially if you learn to play flat down on a table or laptop style vs upright, which is Righty's way of dealing with uncrossing the hands.....you don't have to worry about that if you are left hand dominant. Make sure to get a left handed thumb pick for yourself if you are going to play that way! Good luck to you. There's an index to all my videos at halweeks.com.

@@wildautoharp , I actually bought the older harp for only $49.99 at a goodwill it came in a beat up case with a wrench for the autoharp. The autoharp looks great from what I can tell and, it sounds pretty nice when I was following your beginners video. I am ambidextrous with some things so we will see which hand will work best , but my biggest problem I think right now is I have 3 trigger fingers on my right hand and carpal tunnel , so I will have to adjust for that some. Maybe I will pick up picks for both hands and try them to see which will help me more. I will definitely check out more of your videos , thank you so very much

Sounds like a good problem to have

@@wildautoharp lol!! At least I know I did something right 😁

Made by Mark Fackeldy.

remember not to try to pick single strings...you want to pick a zone, maybe 3-4 strings...so that you catch the note you want. It lets you be a little sloppier. Practice will increase accuracy!

@@wildautoharp I do recognize that and I'm not staring at the strings to pluck. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the exercise. With Ode to Joy each note is only 1-2 strings away from the previous one. So a range of 4 seems like it will give me the wrong note. Unless when you're playing it you are not going up in 1-2 half tone intervals?

@@arachne8x I don't mean jump up 4 strings...but each pluck will cover 3 to 4 strings but only one will sound. You are correct....to get the next note up, you will only move over maybe 1/2 inch...but your pluck will still hit maybe 3 strings, 2 of which are dead. So you don't have to pluck a single individual open string to get the note.

@@wildautoharp oh don't worry. I'm not trying to pluck with perfect accuracy. I'm just also not accurate enough to cover the same distance twice in a row. I'll get there and I appreciate that confirmation.

What a beautiful lesson! Thank you!

That particular harp is a diatonic...it only plays in two keys...but it has double string tuning, like a mandolin. I seldom use it...most of my playing is chromatic.

DAigle Autoharps makes 10 models of handmade instruments. If you are not ready to purchase such sn instrument, then dAigle Also has refurbished vintage Oscar Schmidt harps. Don't buy one of the new ones, they are very poor quality.

Yes absolutely!

The short answer is yes, definately. I learned on a 15 bar two row harp. Most (90%) of Folk, Country, Rock, Gospel have only 3 chords. Just about everything I teach has to do with the picking hand, not the button hand. Where we run into trouble is mostly when we want to sing, and then there are limits because we can't neccessarily sing everying in the keys we can cover with our buttons...So we try to change the key of the song, and don't always have what we need so more buttons give us more singing choices. Sooner or later, you'll want a 21 chord. If you are thinking of lessons, right now, my time is full and a number of others have gotten in line. There are a number of good teachers who teach online, and probably someone can help you!

Yes, with a "conversion kit". I'm assuming an Oscar Schmidt. The OS conversion kit won't work on a Chromaharp/Samick (or other knockoff). Reason being the string spacing is slightly different on the Chromaharp and it doesn't fit the precut notches in the felt on the OS conversion kit. shop.daigleharp.com/collections/parts-and-accessories/products/21-bar-conversion-kit They take some patience to install. I've done it many times.

I'd be glad to teach you! I teach people privately via skype all the time...come to my website, halweeks.com and there is information about how to get started!