A custom C/G diatonic

Here is a custom autoharp commissioned by a Michigan based musician who is also an Oscar Schmidt dealer. Her Etsy site, WellsPlace, features customized new and used autoharps, therapy harps and autoharp parts and accessories.

She plays this with her other diatonic and chromatic autoharps in worship services. A Schreiber electromagnetic pickup, concealed beneath the chord bars, conducts the joyful sounds loud and clear.

 

 

 

Her new personal instrument is a thirty-seven string two key diatonic in the keys of C and G. The fifteen maple chord bars  alternate in colors from natural to stained maple.

Dark stained bridges contrast with the spruce soundboard, curly maple chord bar holders, and side trim.

 

A laser cut rosette trims the soundhole. The dragonfly is, to date, the most popular choice and has appeared on more than a dozen of my instruments.

 

 

 

Included are C and G lock bars that can be swapped into the array as needed. The four blank chord bars and extra felt can be cut for additional chords as needed.

The wooden strip/duster can be inserted beneath the strings as a tuning guide.