Ross--yeah, thanks to this thread I've seen some of Tom Doughty's videos. Shared to Facebook in fact. Pretty inspiring.

Jack Campin--Amazing. You must be a mechanical wizard. Sounds like some patentable ideas you have. I couldn't make the modifications to my autoharp that you suggest, but someone should try. Still messing around with the harp anyway.

Bert--I ordered one of the chord things. I'm skeptical--seems very limiting. But I suppose not playing at all is even more limiting.

You have all had so many positive suggestions, it's going to take a while to work through them Thank you all SO MUCH! BlueJay