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Joe Butler, American singer, autoharp player, and drummer

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Joe Butler

American musician

Joseph Campbell Butler is an American drummer, singer and actor. He is best known as a member of folk-rock band the Lovin' Spoonful, where he was their drummer and later lead vocalist, the group had seven top 10 hits between 1965 and 1966. Outside of his work on music he is an…
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Autoharp

Musical string instrument

An autoharp or chord zither is a string instrument belonging to the zither family. It uses a series of bars individually configured to mute all strings other than those needed for the intended chord. The term autoharp was once a trademark of the Oscar Schmidt company, but has…
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