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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 ...

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 ...

Most people's experiences with the autoharp begin and end with grade school sing-a-longs. But in the 1950s, a man named Mike Seeger proved that you can play real music on the small, 36-string ...

Jemma Watton's all set for the festivities. Even the most talented autoharp player doesn't usually get much attention.The instrument itself seems unwilling to assert its identity - built to stand on ...

Paul Sadek, the technical producer of the “Practicing Catholic” radio show, joked that he plays the autoharp because he was too lazy to learn guitar. But the truth, Sadek said, is that he was ...

Everyone has dreams but not everyone achieves them. Ray Choi has. Choi is one of the world’s top autoharp players, and he demonstrated it at the 2017 Mountain Laurel Autoharp Championship, according ...