• Bud & Karla bring us a Colorfully Chromatic arrangement of "You Belong to Me."
  • We can finally bring you Siegfried Knopfler's arrangement of "San Antonio Rose." He tells us how he arrived at this arrangement.
  • Lucille has a great song from Australia in her Diatonic Corner. You will love it!
  • Lindsay Haisley is the Interaction person this time using Duke Ellington's "Caravan."
  • Mike Fenton has a list of 10 autoharp recordings that will both fascinate you and bring back memories. We'll probably only scratch the surface in this first installment.
  • Robert Grappel tells us about his choice for a humidistat for his autoharp.
  • Pete Daigle explains how to get rid of that nasty "buzz."
  • Alex Usher has the Book Shelf selection in this issue.
  • "Wonderful Words of Life" is Eileeen's choice for the Sacred 'Harp column. You can hear it on the AQ website being played by Heidi Cerrigione.


  • More of Mike Fenton's look back at some of our lesser-known autoharp players.
  • Evan Mathieson is our Picker's Portrait. Evan is very busy "down under" as he plays and builds autoharps, travels the festival scene and promotes the 'harp. And he sings!!
  • Announcement of both the posthumous and the contemporary inductees into the Autoharp Hall of Fame.
  • Bud and Karla bring us a colorfully chromatic "Bill Bailey."
  • Plus Harpers at Large, the Diatonic Corner, a Sacred 'Harp selection, Post Scripts from 'Harpland, new Songbook pages and more ...
  • Mike Herr uses "Mississippi Sawyer" as his jamming lesson. He also gives us some of the history behind this favorite.
  • Ann Norris is our Interaction leader this issue.
  • Lucille Reilly tempts us with a Scottish/Norwegian dance tune - Seksmannsril - in the Diatonic Corner.
  • Eileen Roys uses "We Plow the Fields and Scatter" for her Sacred 'Harp selection.
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