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'Ear'idescent Nightingale Autoharp (original design - limited edition - 11/15)

'Ear'idescent Nightingale Autoharp (original design - limited edition - 11/15)

$ 303.59

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Custom Bundle: No
  • Color: multi-colored
  • Type: Nightingale autoharp
  • Brand: Richard Bozung (artist/seller)
  • Modified Item: No
  • Model: 14 strings with guitar tuners
  • Condition: Like new, made in 2017 and used only by the artist/seller in design development. Original strings. Price reduced to reflect same. (Note: main photo a more accurate dimensional representation of the instrument when displayed horizontally.)
  • Experience Level: Intermediate
  • Handedness: Right Handed
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • MPN: Does Not Apply
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

    Description

    Signed limited edition no. 11 of 15 of a completely new autoharp like musical instrument used by the artist/seller in design development. Designed to be a beautiful sounding and easy to play functional instrument as well as to be hung on a wall as a unique, one of a kind, original piece of "musical folk art". Recommended for those with some playing experience.
    14 strings, guitar tuners, 12 chord bars, tuning g2 to e4, string gauges 56w to 12p.
    Dimensions 30.5 x 10 x 5. Quick release chord mechanism. Electric pick-up.
    Overall dimensions: length = 30.5 in.; depth = 5 in.; width at top 10 in. and at the bottom 6.5 in. Wt. 4.5 lbs.
    Deep body and thin soundboard result in a resonate 6 string guitar like sound. Held upright, with chord bars pushed down at the end (similar to the old Oscar Schmidt 'Guitaro')
    , or on the lap as with a traditional autoharp, or slung with a strap over the shoulder like a guitar.
    { 'Ear'- idescent = a new word to describe a musical instrument specifically designed so that in the standard playing position one's ear comfortably rests against the sound body resulting in a truly ethereal sound sensation.}
    S
    et up to play in the keys of C or G (re-tune 2 strings). Moveable bridge facilitates play in the keys of D or A, Eb or Bb, and E or B. Interchangeable chord guides are used to interpret the chords produced by the chord bars with the bridge in various playable key positions.
    Key of C chords - Csus, Dm7, F, Dm, C, Am, G, Em, G7, Cj7, Gsus and key of G chords - D7, Bm, D, C, Am, G, Em, Gj7, Cj7, Gsus.
    Quick release chord mechanism and chord bars.
    With the chord mechanism removed has the look of a diatonic zither/harp. Single-bar chording mechanism included.
    Please visit Autoharp.net and YouTube for more details on Nightingale Autoharps.
    25% of all proceeds will be used to save homelands for wild things all over the earth, e.g., giraffes, zebras, panthers, tigers, frogs, etc., etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .