I was jargonizing in jargon I made up. I notice that some people like playing things that are one note following another (tin whistles, flutes, trumpets), and others like chords. That's all. As was said earlier, since the singer is doing the melody work, you mostly need just the chords. But (at least on guitar, and I would guess on autoharp as well) one can get pretty sick of just strumming chords. I note that some people pluck tunes out on the autoharp with fingerpicks, and am actually interested in how they figure it out. You should keep us posted. yours, Peter T.