Mystery Ancient Autoharp, Please help! ♥️
Also posting in the autoharp sub, as I'm starving for info here 🙏
I love autoharps and am a beginner with a newer one,
but this isn't it - I got this off Facebook marketplace
today for 75$. I just fell in love with the look of it. The
black fingerboard piece is black painted wood, and
the chord/note markings you see on it are all
painted. I can't find a brand or mark of any kind on it
anywhere.
I want to fix it up desperately, and here are the
challenges I see so far - its missing a few strings
(but the pegs are all there) and some of the foam
levers (? sorry, I can't remember what they're called,
like I said l'm a newbie, my apologies ) inside have
rotted - but not completely, and if I press the buttons,
the levers still (mostly) go up and down, even if some
of the buttons are more responsive than others.
The wood base itself is flat, uncracked, and except
for a few scuffs, seems very sturdy. I am in love
blease, does anyone have any advice on where to go
for repair advice online, or have any idea who made
this beautiful thing?? Please help!
One side note I do want to add -I found this today on
Facebook marketplace, while down in Winnipeg MB
on a work trip. In a few days I return to my home
which is, not to be dramatic, in a Arctic remote
community. Any repairs made I will almost certainly
nave to do myself, unless a luthier in the Winnipeg
area is willing to have me stop by in the next few
days I can still order stuff where I live though -it
just takes a while to get there 😅