Having read several people talking about autoharps here, I looked out the autoharp my aunt gave me, tuned it up, and played a few tunes. I play the way she showed me, which is to strum up to the note of the tune, then stop. As I know about chords, I can work out which bar to use (it's a 6 bar harp in G). As my aunt didn't know about chords, she would always play a melody G using the G bar, whether it belonged there, or in C, or in E minor...

Anyway, I've never heard anyone else play, so I wondering if this approach is right, or if it's more usual just to strum chords as an accompaniment, ignoring the melody, or if people pick the melody on single strings and ignore the chords or ...

Any advice on how to play gratefully received.

Bradypus