Simply Classic

Bob is a long-time staff writer for the Autoharp Quarterly (AQ) magazine. He has written the “Simply Classic” column (how to play classical music on the autoharp) for many years and has contributed articles on a number of other subjects. The following is a list of his published articles in Autoharp Quarterly:

Volume 17, Issue 1: Chord Theory for Autoharp Players, Part I
Volume 17, Issue 2: Chord Theory for Autoharp Players, Part II
Volume 17, Issue 3: Chord Theory for Autoharp Players, Part III
Volume 18, Issue 1: Advanced Chord Theory for Autoharp Players
Volume 18, Issue 4: Gin and Diatonic
Volume 20, Issue 3: Humidify Your Autoharp
Volume 22, Issue 4: Seattle Autoharp Week
Volume 23, Issue 1: (Simply Classic) Rule, Britannia
Volume 23, Issue 2: (Simply Classic) Dance of the Hours
Volume 24, Issue 1: (Simply Classic) “Number 35”
Volume 24, Issue 2: Reflexology for the Autoharp Player
Volume 24, Issue 2: (Simply Classic) The Happy Farmer
Volume 24, Issue 3: Free Range Autoharp (Interview), Part I
Volume 24, Issue 3: (Simply Classic) March From the Nutcracker
Volume 24, Issue 4: Free Range Autoharp (Interview) Part II
Volume 24, Issue 4: (Simply Classic) Humoresque
Volume 25, Issue 1: (Simply Classic) Wachet Auf
Volume 25, Issue 2: (Simply Classic) From the New World
Volume 25, Issue 3: (Simply Classic) March of the Toreadors
Volume 25, Issue 4: (Simply Classic) Sleeping Beauty Waltz
Volume 26, Issue 2: Music by the Numbers
Volume 26, Issue 2: (Simply Classic) Strangers in Paradise
Volume 26, Issue 3: (Simply Classic) In the Bleak Midwinter (Co-Written With Lynda Cohen)
Volume 26, Issue 4: (Simply Classic) Chester
Volume 26, Issue 4: Autoharping in the Desert (Glendale Folk Festival)
Volume 27, Issue 1: (Simply Classic) Serenade
Volume 27, Issue 1: Chording the Piece
Volume 27, Issue 2: (Simply Classic) Ave Maria/Gounod
Volume 27, Issue 2: Music a La Mode
Volume 27, Issue 3: (Simply Classic) Pastoral Symphony theme
Volume 27, Issue 4: (Simply Classic) La Donna È Mobile
Volume 27, Issue 4: The Pentatonic Scale – Doing More With Less
Volume 28, Issue 1: (Simply Classic) Beethoven’s 7th Symphony, 2nd Movement
Volume 28, Issue 2: (Simply Classic) Be Still My Soul
Volume 28, Issue 3: (Simply Classic) Country Dance in G Major
Volume 28, Issue 4: Add Color to Your Autoharp Arrangements (Co-Written With Bob Ebdon)
Volume 28, Issue 4: (Simply Classic) Pomp and Circumstance

Volume 29, Issue 1: (Simply Classic) Peasant Cantata
Volume 29, Issue 2: (Simply Classic) Sonatina Biehl
Volume 29, Issue 2: Your Case Is Suspended
Volume 29, Issue 3: (Simply Classic) Chopin Prelude in A Major
Volume 29, Issue 4: (Simply Classic) Album for the Young
Volume 30, Issue 1: (Simply Classic) Sweet Afton
Volume 30, Issue 1: Run Circles Around the Circle of Fifths
Volume 30, Issue 2: (Simply Classic) Largo From Dvorak’s New World Symphony
Volume 30, Issue 2: What’s So Sweet About Sweet Tuning?
Volume 30, Issue 3: An Autoharp Is Not a Guitar
Volume 30, Issue 3: (Simply Classic) Mozart Romance (2nd Movement Theme)
Volume 30, Issue 4: (Simply Classic) The Lost Chord
Volume 30, Issue 4: Kick Out at the Jams
Volume 31, Issue 1: (Simply Classic) La Mantovana
Volume 31, Issue 1: A Flat 6 Is Not a V8
Volume 31, Issue 2: (Simply Classic) Chording a Classic
Volume 31, Issue 2: What Is a Diminished Seventh?
Volume 31, Issue 3: (Simply Classic) Canonical Fugue
Volume 31, Issue 4: Tune Your Autoharp Without a Roadmap
Volume 31, Issue 4: (Simply Classic) Ah,
Vous Dirai-Je, Maman (Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star) – Mozart’s 12 Variations
Volume 32, Issue 1: (Simply Classic) Thaxted
Volume 32, Issue 1: Three Notes Went Into a Bar
Volume 32, Issue 2: Five of Five
Volume 32, Issue 2: (Simply Classic) Le Cygne/The Swan
Volume 33, Issue 3: (Simply Classic) Abblasen Fanfare
Volume 33, Issue 3: Find That Note
Volume 33, Issue 4: Getting to the Bottom of the Ninth
Volume 33, Issue 4: (Simply Classic) Morning Mood
Volume 34, Issue 1: (Simply Classic) O Sole Mio
Volume 34, Issue 1: Augment Your Autoharp
Volume 34, Issue 2:(Simply Classic) Recuerdos De La Alhambra
Volume 34, Issue 2: Interview With Harvey Reid, Troubador
Volume 34, Issue 3: (Simply Classic) Danse Macabre
Volume 34, Issue 3: Three Variations on “My Grandfather’s Clock”
Volume 34, Issue 3: Jamming in the Time of COVID (Co-Written With Cindy Harris)
Volume 34: Issue 4: (Simply Classic) Ave Maria
Volume 34: Issue 4: The Neopolitan Chord
Volume 35: Issue 1: (Simply Classic) La Golondrina
Volume 35: Issue 1: Getting Beyond the Rhythm Method