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Zither variety
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autoharp
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Word definitions for autoharp in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1882, name on a patent taken out by Charles F. Zimmermann of Philadelphia, U.S.A., for an improved type of harp, an instrument considerably different from the modern autoharp, actually a chord zither, which was invented about the same time by K.A. Gütter ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Autoharp \Au"to*harp\, n. [Auto- + harp.] A zitherlike musical instrument, provided with dampers which, when depressed, deaden some strings, leaving free others that form a chord.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The autoharp is a musical string instrument having a series of chord bars attached to dampers, which, when depressed, mute all of the strings other than those that form the desired chord . Despite its name, the autoharp is not a harp at all, but a chorded ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A string instrument having a series of chord bars attached to dampers which mute all the strings other than those that form the desired chord
Usage examples of autoharp.
This talent absolutely disgusted the harpy, and she finally took the Autoharp into the deepest forest and left him there, hopelessly lost.
Benny said, "Y'know, Ed, if you felt like it, you could radio down to Grantville and ask someone to bring me up my autoharp when they're coming.
Toward the end there we had three guitars, harmonica, tenor sax, alto recorder, and an autoharp going, and it got pretty juicy.
Absently, she wondered why the sorcerers of Liedwahr never developed something like the autoharp, with chording bars.
Everybody plays something: the guitar, the banjo, the autoharp, the spoons, the dulcimer -- or the dulcimore, as they call it.