Editing Autoharp (section)

=== Electric autoharp ===
[[File:autoharp of roger penney.jpg|thumb|150px|Custom electric autoharp of autoharpist [[Roger Penney]]]]
Until the 1960s, no pickups were available to amplify the autoharp other than rudimentary contact microphones, which frequently had a poor-quality, tinny sound. In the early 1960s, a bar [[Pickup (music technology)|magnetic pickup]] was designed for the instrument by [[Harry DeArmond]], and manufactured by Rowe Industries. [[Pinkerton's Assorted Colours]] used the instrument on their 1966 single "Mirror, Mirror".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Pinkerton's Assorted Colours {{!}} Biography & History|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/pinkertons-assorted-colours-mn0001897913|access-date=2020-10-11|website=AllMusic|language=en-us}}</ref> In the 1970s, Oscar Schmidt came out with their own magnetic pickup. ''The Evil One'', a 1979 hard rock album by [[Roky Erickson|Roky Erickson and the Aliens]] prominently featured the electric autoharp of Bill Miller which granted "an unearthly edge" to the music.<ref>Ben Graham, [https://books.google.com/books?id=3arpCAAAQBAJ&dq=%22roky+erickson%22+autoharp&pg=PT328 The Battle for Texas's Psychedelic Music, from The 13th Floor Elevators to The Black Angels and Beyond] (2015, John Hunt Publishing), Ch. 31</ref>

Shown is a 1930 refinished Oscar Schmidt “Model A”. This harp has two [[DeArmond]] magnetic pickups (one under the chord bars), with a d'Aigle fine-tuning mechanism, and d'Aigle chord bar assembly, and was used in a 1968 [[MGM Records]]/[[Heritage Records (United States)|Heritage Records]] recording by [[Euphoria (American band)|Euphoria]].