This song would never have gotten on Sesame Street in the Elmo era . . .

[omorka]

That's the ur-autoharpist for me, there - my earliest memories of the instrument. I actually like the Sesame Street version better than the album version - there's too much banjo on the album.

In other autoharp news, cheshirebast and I (mostly Cheshirebast) have managed to install the pickup on the old eBay autoharp, restring it, and tune it, although I need to tune it again - the new strings are still stretching. The next steps are to (a) cut the felts on the bars for the 12 power chords, and (b) figure out what the last two bars are going to be for (one of the remaining three is going to be a stop bar). Cheshirebast has suggested "that chord that only occurs in Purple Haze and Foxy Lady," but I'm not sure that would sound okay on an autoharp. I also need to decide what order, chromatic or circle-of-fifths, I want to arrange the power chords in.

I still can't quite believe we're building a punk autoharp. When we had the strings off, we were joking about painting it with a Hello Kitty skull or something similar, and I suggested writing "this machine kills teabaggers" on it. Cheshirebast didn't know what I was talking about. *sigh* I'm not even the folkie!

Comments

[bibulb.livejournal.com]

I'm partial to "this machine kills ignorance" for your axe.

[pinesandmaples]

You know, if I didn't know better, I would say that clip is from The Muppet Show instead of Sesame Street.

[peoriapeoria.livejournal.com]

three year olds weren't coddled so much back then (because, frankly, a lot of the adults had done the 60s too hard.) As long as everyone kept their clothes on and their language clean and civil, it was better than the news.

[the-kiggy.livejournal.com]

How about "Rocky II"?



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