I have been joking for years about the need for a capo for autoharp. Today we gave up all hope of that and punted. I wish I had done it a year ago when I first thought of this--

We tuned one of my laminated/electric autoharps down a half step and now I can play in B, E, and all sorts of keys that suit my voice better for songleading. Other players just tuned to me, finding it easier than transposing all our material. And I don't need to know really what key I am in, I can just use all the arrangements we'd already worked out. It improved greatly the tone of the chords to the outer edges of the bqar assembly (a 21-chorder). The overall tone is a bit rough-sounding tho, for the middle-located chords, compared to how it used to sound.

That leaves the other solid-wood/electric harp tuned to play in true tune with fiddle tunes, at jams, and so forth, amped or acoustic with its good tone. I was going to carry two harps anyway now that I have a good luggage cart and better portable playing stand than I have had in years. (I play table-top upside down.)

The quick-change-chord-bar-assembly Chromaharp I bought, I am refelting to make it diatonic E & B.

~S~