In a popular fictional world of wizards, important communications are transmitted via owls. I don’t know if an owl could bear an autoharp aloft and I am certainly not a wizard, but an autoharp musician here in Ohio has asked that an owl adorn her new instrument.

I have recently located a source of laser cut ornaments in a variety of subjects. Most are too large to inlay as a sound hole rosette but with many of them, I can trim away the bordering areas for a good fit.

 

 

 

Here is a new custom thirty-six string chromatic autoharp. My standard, one piece pinblock frame features a spruce sound board, laminate back, and 3/16 inch thick walnut veneered sides. Matching walnut was also used for the brass rod-capped bridges, tail piece, chord bar covers, bridges and chord bar covers.

The fifteen chord bars are made of curly maple. The contrasting buttons are capped with walnut.