{"id":3669,"date":"2008-06-12T23:06:35","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T03:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=3669"},"modified":"2008-06-15T18:25:03","modified_gmt":"2008-06-15T22:25:03","slug":"autoharp-frenzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/12\/autoharp-frenzy\/","title":{"rendered":"autoharp frenzy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3684\" title=\"autoharp chord bars\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/xlx2-20080611-203622.jpg\" alt=\"autoharp chord bars\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/xlx2-20080611-203622.jpg 528w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/xlx2-20080611-203622-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I got an autoharp on eBay a couple of weeks back. It was cheap, but fairly beat up. 32 of the 36 1970s-vintage strings were intact, if very tarnished. I spent more on new strings and a tuning wrench at <a href=\"http:\/\/elderly.com\/\">Elderly<\/a> last weekend. After spending a few evenings cleaning (you don&#8217;t want to know what I found in it), replacing strings (fiddly) and tuning (slow), I can now make 1970s sounds. Fun!<\/p>\n<p>(<em>and yes, before you ask, it does appear to have two B\u00e2\u2122\u00ad7 keys.<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got an autoharp on eBay a couple of weeks back. It was cheap, but fairly beat up. 32 of the 36 1970s-vintage strings were intact, if very tarnished. I spent more on new strings and a tuning wrench at Elderly last weekend. After spending a few evenings cleaning (you don&#8217;t want to know what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[1310],"class_list":["post-3669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choons","tag-autoharp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-Xb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}