Daigle Autoharps

Specialties

Custom Autoharps and Folk Instruments

We build custom autoharps. We repair many folk instruments from guitars to mountain dulcimers.

We also carry a wide variety of folks instruments in our store, and they are ready for you to try out!

You can join our email list to get information on events and classes in our shop.

History

Established in 2002.

Pete Daigle started in his home workshop eventually growing his business and opening our doors in 2002.

Meet the Business Owner

Pete D.

Business Owner

My father, also a woodworker, received a book on woodworking as a gift

from my mother in 1945. The occasion was their 1^st wedding anniversary.

This short paragraph by John Ruskin (19^th century) is on the inside cover.

It embodies the spirit of what we try to be at A Different Drummer.

When we build, let us think that we build forever.

Let it not be for present delight nor for present use

alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will

thank us for; and let us think, as we lay stone on

stone, that a time is to come when those stones

will be held sacred because our hands have

touched them, and that men will say, as they look

upon the labor and wrought substance of them,

«See! This our father did for us.» –John Ruskin

Over the years, the development of the d’Aigle Autoharp has involved many friends.

This is a list of some of the people who have aided me directly in ways both large

and small. The names are listed alphabetically, along with the capacity in which

they helped. I