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Marsha plays a traditional tune, “John B Sails” which in modern times was popularized by the Beach Boys as “Sloop John B”. She temporarily sticks a piece of masking tape across the strings at the anchor end for a kind of steel drum sound. The autoharp is a 37 string G/D diatonic called “The Dove” by its Canadian owner.

Sloop John

Sloop John

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