1) Bluegrass instrument 2) Easy instrument to strum 3) Exclusively Anglo word 4) Exclusively Saxon word 5) Producer of simple chords 6) Type of zither 7) Variety of zither 8) Word of purely Anglo origin 9) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins 10) Zither with buttons
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1) String
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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 zither. ==History== There is debate over the origin of the autoharp. A German immigrant in Phi...
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• (n.) A zitherlike musical instrument, provided with dampers which, when depressed, deaden some strings, leaving free others that form a chord.
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stringed instrument of the zither family popular for accompaniment in folk music and country and western music. A musician may position the ... [1 related articles]
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Au'to·harp noun [
Auto- +
harp .] A zitherlike musical instrument, provided with dampers which, when depressed, deaden some strings, leaving free others that form a chord.
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zither with a keyboard chord making mechanism which mutes unwanted strings. Strummed or Picked.
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The autoharp is a zither with a keyboard chord making mechanism which mutes unwanted strings. It is either strummed or picked.
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a small harp with buttons to press for playing chords - Is the autoharp used much in bluegrass music?
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a zither having buttons that when depressed damp all strings except those to be sounded, the undamped strings being strummed to produce simple chords.
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