Tuning The Autoharp - Don't Buy Used or 80 Years Old.

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Жыл бұрын

Thought I was going to show you how to tune it? Wrong channel bub. Enjoy: The Autoharp! ♥️♥️

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@mitommy3430 Жыл бұрын

Lol you’ll live on as a folk hero to 80’s story time library ladies everywhere.

@TB-zl6le Жыл бұрын

That’s a very obscure instrument to say the least. June Carter would be proud of you.

@bassassassinnn7459 Жыл бұрын

I LOVE Zithers. I have a small collection of Zithers from Germany, all in pristine condition. They're fun to play on, and you can play some mean bluegrass and country with one! I prefer my steel guitar or an acoustic, but they are really quite neat.

@spiceymchaggiss Жыл бұрын

Takes me back to elements school music class. My teacher always had one lurking around

@DetectEdOutdoors Жыл бұрын

Dude, I watched hoping you were going to break out a little Stairway to Heaven or Master of Puppets. Gets to practicing! lol

@calnative4904 Жыл бұрын

We had music class when I was a kid, we learned to play 3 instruments poorly 😅 autoharp, recorder, and ukulele.

@threefortytwo23 Жыл бұрын

I missed out on the uke!!

@johnstevens3000 Жыл бұрын

Way cool!

@YouTuber-ep5xx Жыл бұрын

Bravo! Bravo!

@threefortytwo23 Ай бұрын

😂😊

@143DREWID Жыл бұрын

I am pretty sure it should be called a female harp by the sounds of it... I mean the tuning. Go for the standard 1-4-5, G-C-D and get the mullet swaying for the womenz. Put Cpt Kurt on the 5 gallon bucket for drums and you've got it going on like Alcatraz.

@SmouseHouseHobbies Жыл бұрын

You had an Autoharp as a child. I'm only a couple years older then you and I've never seen one (oh, the sheltered life I had, lol)

@scottnyc6572 Жыл бұрын

Wine glasses breaking..lol

@threefortytwo23 Ай бұрын

Hahah

@WilliamWilson-it9qe Жыл бұрын

Yet another hidden talent you've been keeping secret! Now you can lullaby the girls to sleep😘

@forkedhornYT Жыл бұрын

You working on the hair so you can be an autoharp Yanni?

@JenBriSeth Жыл бұрын

Play Free Bird!

@OfficialBurrow 11 күн бұрын

I already bought one used. Too bad.

@sempercommunications7804 Жыл бұрын

You need a hair cut. Ps. Nice auto harp

@jennywalborn7769 Жыл бұрын

Pick drop!!

@threefortytwo23 Ай бұрын

Hi Jenny, I hope you're awesome 👍

@DavidAKALumpy Жыл бұрын

Bravo?

@threefortytwo23 Жыл бұрын

Oh no, certainly save your bravos.

@Zampan0 4 ай бұрын

I want to think he's joking but I don't. He got it in tune, but he was strumming the wrong side of the chord changer.

@threefortytwo23 4 ай бұрын

The video is 90% satire but I definitely do NOT know how to properly tune or strum an autoharp

@kishascape Ай бұрын

No that’s actually the proper side for normal chord play.

@Zampan0 Ай бұрын

@@kishascape Maybe that's the way you do it and I suppose it works, but I strum or pick a note above the bars because it gives a much louder, longer lasting sound.

@h.wagner Жыл бұрын

I hope you didn't just tune from bottom to top, or top to bottom on an old instrument like that. You would be imposing torsion stresses which could break it. Perhaps that's why tuning was such an exercise. Wanna see what an autoharp can do? Check my channel out. They're definitely for more than Sunday School teachers with blue hair.

@threefortytwo23 Жыл бұрын

I love your comment!! I tuned it from top to bottom and then bottom to top. I'm sure your ear could tell the tune was off. But it was better than the 40 years in the closet tune. Huge crack down the middle of it so I wasn't concerned about ratcheting down haha. Checking out your channel!!

@h.wagner Жыл бұрын

@@threefortytwo23 Two other issues with the way autoharps sound after someone "tunes" them is that, spanning 3-1/2 octaves, they need to use tempered tuning (too huge a topic for here) or they will sound "off" from the git go, even though the tuning is "dead on". Then add to that #2, where the strings taper down the instrument, but folks strum straight across, and the harmonic structure of each string is dissonant with that of every other string. Listen to my instruments vs many of the autoharp posters on YT and you will hear the difference these 2 considerations make.