MIMF

Thank you very much for this, Clay. Certain details tell me this is "one-off," and I do believe the pins were manufactured and purchased, rather than hand-made. "Where and when were they made?" is the the question! UPDATE: I've found some promising online leads to year range of m...

Well, there’s a photo of CF Zimmermann playing an autoharp shaped like Fig. 1 in US257,808, so we know he built at least one, maybe two. But back to the tuning pins on the autoharp in Grmany: they look fatter than what CFZ put on his autoharps, more like piano pins. (I own a Philadelphia autoharp an...

No, it does not. The instrument pictured is only slightly similar, and while others view this and the German autoharp surrounding this thread as a match, to my eye the construction is vastly different Just for the record, I have dissected US257,808 >significantly< enough to make anyone’s head spin! ...

Thank you for this, Alan. Glad I didn't contact Vermont yet. It takes an enormous amount of research to get to the bottom of things!

Wow, that is quite the discussion! Thank you so much for your thoughts! We need to remember that this instrument lives in a museum in Germany, so it may have been made there. I would be surprised if its tuning pins came from the USA. So I will check with the folks in Vermont, but don't know how much...

I would say it is possible that the pins are handmade, although they do look consistent from one to the next. I was hoping the rectangular ends might indicate something. Does anyone know when tuning pins were made by machine or molds or however they are made? The photos I have of the entire instrume...

4491 tuning pins.jpg Sorry this took so long. Other things on my plate. But I don't think I did this right. I found the image button above the message field, but upload? All I could do was paste in the image file title. Dragging the photo into the message area didn't work. I will post and see what ...

Ummm, how do I attach one? I don't see any place to do it. Thank you.

Hi, I hope this is the right place to ask the following’ I am working on dating when an old German(??) autoharp was built. It’s in a museum in Germany, but who knows? It could have been built in the United States. It’s a one-time deal, as far as we can see, with no label inside or name anywhere. No ...