Playing a Welty Table Harp

Homer Welty designed this autoharp to be played on a table. 54" long, and 17 1/2" wide, it hangs over my folding table. It is tuned to just intonation. I don't know what that means, other than it has a beautiful, haunting sound. I have some other harps by Homer, who passed on last year, and I will get them on soon. I am playing "Down in the Valley"

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• autoharp
• music
• zither

[delita60]

this dulci-harp is a dream come true. i would have one of these if i could ever find one. i hadn't ever heard of Homer till i seen this video. i done a little research on him and found very little. i wonder if any luthiers are going to make any of these. and if they ever do i will be the first in line. and thank you gf for sharing this video showing a very remarkable instrument.

[gfharper]

To play in this position, there are two - one is the "Attache" by Oscar Schmidt, and the other is made by Chroma - Harp, but I don't know the name. They are left handed, in a fixed case, with the chord bars on the left, and the open area on the right, as is this one.

[rrdoran]

Oh my god.. I would kill for that. I thought I had a lot, and I only have 4. And 2 are Guitaros, so I don't really count them. Do you have any more welty harps?

[gfharper]

I have three finished, several more to be completed. Pete d'Aigle and I were blessed with several of Homer's harps before he passed on.

[rrdoran]

how many autoharps do you have?

[gfharper]

Around twenty that I keep in tune, plus more than that in my antiques, although I never count them. I have a room full, plus a couple of closets with autoharps (and zithers) in boxes. I am blessed. I am spoiled.

[onefishinthesea]

Homer Welty was my great-grandfather. He was an amazing man. Thank for you uploading this video :)

[999gumps]

Last night I found lots of video of Homer Welty himself playing the harp in 1984. Also shows a bunch of his "I wondered what would happen if . . . " guitars and mandolins. Will try to post these this summer.

don (his nephew)

[mildredwhite]

I have a Chromaharp 28 chord table model harp sorta like this one. I have a terrible time trying to explain to people why I don't play it upright. Other people insist that I am playing it "wrong". No, I'm just not as good at playing it as I could be with more time to practice. LOL Mine was made by RBI and it is a Caroler. I love it. I just wish I could get my strums down better so I could sound this good.

[gtrgdss]

Greetings from a fellow Welty- This video was awesome!!! :)

[delita60]

there is one made by RBI that has 43 strings... it is a lap style dulci-harp called the Caroler... but i still think the Welty is awesome...

[delita60]

i seen a picture of Homer Welty playing one of these in the upright position.... i like the size of the dulci-harp .... it is resonance that i like from the strings .... a sound that you can't get from regular dulci-harps .... and i do enjoy hearing you ... i would like to see another video of you with the Welty.... keep those videos coming...