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4/16/2012

Oscar Schmidt 21 Chord Autoharp Review

Oscar Schmidt 21 Chord Autoharp
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I purchased this for my six year-old's birthday because her father and I play guitar and she always wants to be a part of the music practice. She is learning to strum in time and be dedicated to practicing an instrument. We all love playing this. Fabulous quality, take some time to tune. Buy the hard case for it and plenty of picks.


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Oscar Schmidt is the world's biggest autoharp manufacturer, and the OS21C is one of their most popular models. With 21 chords, a resonant maple body and rock maple pin block, and the handcrafted quality Oscar Schmidt is known for, it's a solid, affordable autoharp that's built to last.

Oscar Schmidt AutoharpsFrom its early beginnings in the 1900s, the Oscar Schmidt Company has offered an instrument with a voice representing individual freedom for American Folk Music. With a wide variety of models to choose from, Oscar Schmidt is truly the original and only complete source for the Autoharp.
The OS21CThe OS21C 21-chord classic is one of Oscar Schmidt's most popular models, and with good reason. As a chromatic 21-chord model, it offers three rows of buttons, meaning quick, smooth chord transitions. Oscar Schmidt's patented chord bar button layout includes A, D, G, C, F, Bb, Eb and A Major; E, A, D, G and C Minor; along with B, E, A, D, G, C, F, and Bb Seventh Chords.
This autoharp features select maple construction, and is finished in an attractive sunburst gloss. A rock maple pin block provides serious strength, to assure your autoharp is always in tune.
Oscar Schmidt backs this instrument with a five-year warranty, for added peace of mind.
About Oscar Schmidt Musical InstrumentsThe Oscar Schmidt Company was founded in 1871 and incorporated in 1911. By the early 1900s, the company had five factories in Europe and a factory on Ferry Street in Jersey City. They made all kinds of stringed instruments, guitars, banjos, mandolins, ukuleles, zithers, and Autoharps.
The company prospered through the early 1920s. Oscar Schmidt instruments were sold in many rural parts of the country where no music stores existed. Salesmen distributed the products far and wide, making them available in general, small town furniture and dry goods stores. Country guitar pickers and blues musicians living in areas of the South and in Appalachia, far from the city, frequently played Oscar Schmidt instruments because they were both inexpensive and available locally. But equally important, they were often chosen solely on merits of their superior tone and volume.
Today at Oscar Schmidt, premium woods, quality hardware and modest prices create an ideal instrument. Each is inspected and adjusted in the USA by a skilled technician, your assurance for smooth fret ends, precision low action and resonant sound quality. Unequalled standards in easy playing comfort and tone response creates the perfect value... Oscar Schmidt.

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4/03/2012

Oscar Schmidt OS45CE Acoustic Electric Auto Harp Review

Oscar Schmidt OS45CE Acoustic Electric Auto Harp
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This wonderful, natural spruce top, maple sides and bottom-stained in a reddish sunburst pattern-is a joy to play. It can be played fully acoustically or can be plugged in and with the battery connected-usually included and it "lives" inside a small panel on the back of the instrument (takes 1 9 volt) goes electronic/acoustic. What I mean is that when the battery is connected the instrument then gives you a 4 panel graphic equalizer that allows for adjustment of low range, mid range, top end and overall sound as well as volume output to the not included amp. This has no bearing on the acoustic output of the instrument, only when it is plugged in to an amp. The instrument has great, wonderful, WARM tones in low to mid range and clear sparkling highs that are a joy to hear on the Christmas classics. For a mass production item this autoharp rates well with custom made a-harps. This a-harp is a nice, well rounded instrument for anybody looking to step up from an entry level black 12 or 15 chord OS 73 that are lightweight with no true tones.
Pluses for this harp-4 band equalizer with volume control (when used with a battery and the instrument is to be plugged into an outside amp source). EACH string has a fine tuner installed which makes tuning the instrument to perfection a snap!
Downsides for this harp-the stock setup for the chord buttons is clumsy and not very practical. This is easily rectofied by the owner taking some time to research which chords need to be moved (based on their style/level of play) and then actually moving the chordbars. Plenty of info can be had from various internet sources on better chord bar placement for this and all Oscar Schmidt (Washburn) autoharps. Other than that I am hard placed to name any other downs to this wonderful sounding, great playing intermediate/pro level harp.
This harp will last the average player a lifetime with proper care. The instrument is a great value for what you get.

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Select spruce top, Unique flower shaped soundhole, Maple body, Laminated rock maple pin block, Satin finish, 21 Chords, Built in EQ442 active electric pick up, Built in FT600 Fine Tuning System

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