A kind of zither fitted with a series of sprung and padded bars which allow the playing of chords by damping selected strings.
（可奏和弦的）自动竖琴
Example sentencesExamples
The least accessible track is the second, which takes a dense swirl of autoharp and guitar notes and slowly submerges them in an organ drone that rises over the course of 12 minutes.
She strums an old autoharp as she croons some of the best country tunes from the '40s.
The autoharp strums a single chord every 2 bars in the verse, but in the chorus changes chords.
To the left is Big Al on mainly double bass and autoharp.
She plays a small stringed instrument called an autoharp, but it is her voice that makes this a memorable record.
Definition of autoharp in US English:
autoharp
nounˈôdōˌhärpˈɔdoʊˌhɑrp
A kind of zither with a mechanical device that allows the playing of a chord by damping all the other strings.
（可奏和弦的）自动竖琴
Example sentencesExamples
The least accessible track is the second, which takes a dense swirl of autoharp and guitar notes and slowly submerges them in an organ drone that rises over the course of 12 minutes.
The autoharp strums a single chord every 2 bars in the verse, but in the chorus changes chords.
She plays a small stringed instrument called an autoharp, but it is her voice that makes this a memorable record.
She strums an old autoharp as she croons some of the best country tunes from the '40s.
To the left is Big Al on mainly double bass and autoharp.