{"id":4267,"date":"2009-03-08T08:49:58","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T12:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=4267"},"modified":"2013-11-04T09:49:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T14:49:19","slug":"bob-briehl-the-autoharp-man-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/08\/bob-briehl-the-autoharp-man-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Briehl, the autoharp man in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After ferrying <a href=\"http:\/\/c-raine.com\/\">Catherine<\/a> around for another exciting adventure in LibraryQuest, we took my autoharps to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ordnasolutions.com\/sites\/appalachian\/index.html\">Appalachian Instruments<\/a> in Oakville for a repair. I have half expecting Bob to declare at least one of them a junker, but apparently they&#8217;re more than salvageable. Indeed, the older Type A is apparently a rather nice 1950s wood-bar black felt Silvertone, and the Type B, despite the warped top, is a good little player except for a couple of weak springs. Bob&#8217;s busy repairing and generally refurbing them, and we should get them back in a week or two. Should we form an autoharp folk duo?<\/p>\n<p>Bob&#8217;s the local luminary of the autoharp, and has many models and spares in stock. It&#8217;s best to leave a message on the store&#8217;s phone, as he&#8217;s not always there. He also teaches, and does house calls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Appalachian Instruments<br \/>\n<del> 117 Westside Drive, Oakville ON L6K 1P2<\/del><br \/>\n171 Solingate Drive Oakville ON L6L 3S8<br \/>\n(905) 845-0638<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Bob advised of a change of address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After ferrying Catherine around for another exciting adventure in LibraryQuest, we took my autoharps to Appalachian Instruments in Oakville for a repair. I have half expecting Bob to declare at least one of them a junker, but apparently they&#8217;re more than salvageable. Indeed, the older Type A is apparently a rather nice 1950s wood-bar black [&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":[1310,1200],"class_list":["post-4267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choons","tag-autoharp","tag-canada"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-16P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267","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=4267"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10132,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions\/10132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}