One Person's Junk....

     Today has been a very good day.  Eler Beth and I started out the morning by going to some yard sales, and I came back with a treasure!  A lady a few streets over was selling an auto harp for $50.00.  The auto harp is in pristine shape and it came with the original case, all its origianl parts, original tuning key, picks, original instruction book and music book.  $50.00!!!  She said a local music shop owner told her he wouldn't take less than $200.00 for it if he were selling it, but she didn't want to go to the trouble of advertising it to get that kind of money, so she just put $50.00 on it in her yard sale. 

It is now mine.

My dad had an auto harp when I was very, very little, and I can remember him playing it occasionally.  He loaned it to his youngest brother who gave piano lessons, and it was in this brother's house when the house caught fire and burned down.  My sister Barbara has one, so I can get her to help me out if I have trouble remembering how to play it!  I have played one before, but it has been a long time.  I need to make sure it is in tune, and I may just take it to be professionally tuned, because I'm not sure I'd trust myself to do it (I tune my own guitars, and I know how to tune my mandolin, but I usually just pay someone to do it).

When I get it tuned I'll have to sit out on my front porch and serenade the neighbors this summer!

Tags: auto harp, yard sale finds