Stripped down the key bridges and cleaned the gunk. The felt pads look good. The springs seem fine too. Cleaned what I could of the sound board while there and removed the remains of the broken strings.
Reassembled.
Got old guitar strings and fitted them where the weights seemed close. Pulling out the little brass plug from the end of the string left a loop of wire that fits well over the ping that secures the end of the string in the Autoharp.
No Key. The local music shop had them and luckily there's no fitting problem. Was $15 or so and they had them in stock.
The quartz digital tuner I use for guitar tuning has the range and made tuning a long (32 strings ) but easy enough process.
The chords sound very weird; re-tune. Still weird. Look at photos of instrument; Aha: I have the key bars on up-side down. You don't play it on your lap like a dulcimer but on your chest like a super stumpy guitar. Change the key bars.
Beautiful.
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