Guitaro

A Guitaro is a brand of autoharp constructed to be held like a guitar.

Oscar Schmidt-International, Inc. manufactured the Guitaro in the mid-1960s through the early 70s to take advantage of the guitar's popularity in the folk music revival of that era. (See Guitaro's US Patent #3,237,503, filed with the USPTO on June 17, 1963 and issued March 1, 1966.) Other sellers commonly sold it under their own brand names but most or all resellers still called it Guitaro.