12-13-2011, 09:37 PM
john-o wrote: I wonder what "chorded zither" means, when appended to the name of an autoharp?
Okay, from Googling it appears that the term autoharp was originally owned by the Oscar Schmidt company and that the "correct" generic term is chorded zither.
But it seems the name autoharp has itself become generic, so they probably use both to be sure non-Oscar-Schmidt autoharps come up in customer searches regardless of which term is used..
http://www.folk-legends.net/instruments.html#Autoharp