+Hans Hylkema Go to an autoharp gathering with competitions to see men and women perform without picks, with picks, with amps, with pick ups, with microphones, on luthier autoharps, in all styles and variations. The CD is $20 and is well worth the music from these gatherings.
+Hans Hylkema People play until 4 am and then get up at noon and practice for the competition all weekend. There are bass, violin, fiddle, banjo, dulcimer, and many different instruments there.
GOB-SMACKING! as we say in Yorkshire. Thank you so much for opening my eyes to what's possible on an autoharp. For years I only picked it up when the band played a hoedown or a gospel song. Now it does a bit of jazz, country, classical - not to your standards of course, but moving in the right direction.
