Word: autoharp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...listening at the workshops each morning and afternoon. These workshops, a phenomenon peculiar to folk music, provide anyone who is interested with a chance to listen to their favorite people play and explain their individual styles and techniques. The workshops are of every conceivable kind--blues, topical songs, the autoharp, you name it. And for many, they provide the main attraction of Newport...
...nice scene, but hardly vital to the film. What makes it indispensable is Mancini's music - a calliope, then a bass clarinet noodling a theme suggested by the old boogie-woogie tune, Down the Road a Piece. For the current Experiment in Terror, Mancini uses an autoharp; each appearance of the villain is marked by its dissonant and eerie chords...
Singing in English. French. Hebrew, and Spanish, the group is a kind of Kingston Quintet, doing a spread of folk songs. American and foreign. All five play the guitar, and beyond that they diversify into a variety of instruments that includes five-string banjo, recorder, autoharp, maracas, a ten-string South American charango made from an armadillo shell, and a Nigerian talking drum. Their style is controlled and relaxed, with faultless rhythm, but minus Michael and United Artists, they could be any good college group...