Downbeat magazine once called Bryan Bowers, Ron Wall and Dan Wiethop the Father, Son and Holy Ghost of the autoharp. Bowers, who lives in the Seattle, Wash., area, has played in and around Cape ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Walt Michael, Common Ground on the Hill founder and hammered dulcimer player, will present two concerts this weekend. Michael will be joined by Bryan Bowers, Autoharp master, for a concert at 7:30 p.m ...

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 ...

After 13 years at Amazon, including a stint doing cloud computing, software engineer and musician Paul Mariz left in 2012 and shortly thereafter started working on a project called AutoHarp. It's a ...

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