All the Bells and Whistles

  • September
    2020

    UCSD’s Toy Piano Festival Celebrates Its 20th Year

    By Scott Paulson

    Scott Paulson, one of our monthly columnists, invites San Diego Troubadour readers to the 20th Annual Toy Piano Festival, which is being held as a Facebook Live virtual event this year. Scott is the founder and director of this popular local festival, hosted on his home turf at the UC San Diego Library, where he […]

  • August
    2020

    The Autoharp

    By Scott Paulson

    The autoharp is a very American instrument with obvious eastern European roots. There was a remarkable period of development in 1880s Germany when the volkszither design from instrument maker Karl August Gutter appeared on the scene, looking much like our current version. Charles F. Zimmerman produced autoharps in the United States around the same time, […]

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