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Autoharp

[ aw-toh-hahrp ]

Trademark.
  1. a zither having buttons that when depressed damp all strings except those to be sounded, the undamped strings being strummed to produce simple chords.


Autoharp

/ ˈɔːtəʊˌhɑːp /

noun

  1. a zither-like musical instrument used in country-and-western music, equipped with button-controlled dampers that can prevent selected strings from sounding, thus allowing chords to be played. It is plucked with the fingers or a plectrum
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Then I remembered the little autoharp I had placed among the other things in that pile of vanished toys.

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