When thinking about country music, many mainstream fans would be hard-pressed to list the Autoharp as a country-music staple -- deferring to guitars, cowboy hats and songs about tractors, instead. But ...

GARDEN GROVE – You probably never heard of Ray Choi. He runs a little music shop in Garden Grove, where he sells an odd instrument with 37 strings. It looks like a zither, which is to say it resembles ...

Bryan Bowersplays the autoharp; a box-like instrument held to the chest, one hand strumming, one pressing buttons attached to chord bars that mute all the strings but the chord being played. “When I ...

For many, the autoharp is remembered as the slightly geeky, easy-to-play instrument from grade-school music class, or as the accompaniment for folk and country singers in the late 1950s and '60s. It's ...

It's the sound that unites Orson Welles and PJ Harvey What is it? Well. A zither is technically any stringed instrument that has the feature of the strings not extending beyond the soundhole or ...