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Please help me, the GLW is driving me mad!

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We've been to see Squeeze supported by the Lightning Seeds this week. The Lightning Seeds keyboard player played a strange looking instrument and she wants to know what the bloody thing is called.

It's teardrop shaped and hand held, as you look at it horizontally the narrow end is towards the left. The broad end has 3 or 4 rows of buttons a bit like an accordion. The other side has a plate which must be some kind of sensor, as the buttons are pressed the sensor is strummed like a guitar making, well, guitar/harp like noises.

Anyone got any ideas?

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An autoharp?

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Brookster | 12 December 2010 - 4:16pm

No, it's an electronic

No, it's an electronic fella, do they do electric autoharps?

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Neil Dyson | 12 December 2010 - 4:19pm

They do electric Autoharps but if it didn't look like the pic

then maybe it was an Omnichord?

This was a branded device made by Suzuki in the 1980s and was played by 'strumming' the touchplate whilst fingering the buttons.

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stimpy | 12 December 2010 - 4:29pm

I was about to suggest something

but Brookster was probably spot on. I'd forgotten the Autoharp, an instrument I'll always associate with John Sebastian

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stimpy | 12 December 2010 - 4:23pm

It looks like

It's a digital Autoharp.

Thanks for getting me there folks!

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Neil Dyson | 12 December 2010 - 4:26pm
soapdodger | 12 December 2010 - 4:28pm

This hardly helps, I know


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Pax Romana | 12 December 2010 - 5:55pm

Thank you Danny Baker

For many things but a big thanks for introducing me to the wonderful world of the brilliant Gregory Page.

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Sour Crout | 12 December 2010 - 6:00pm
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