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Glass harmonica

"Years ago in Philadelphia I heard a street musician brilliantly performing
Mozart, etc. on the glass harmonica..."

I've not heard it, but read that Mozart wrote an adagio and rondo for musical 
glasses, flute, oboe, viola, and cello, K 617 (May 23, 1791). It was 
commissioned by a blind glass harmonica vituoso, Marianne Kirchgassner.

Something I have heard on the radio though is a concerto for Jew's Harp by 
Albrechtsberger (who gave Beethoven composition lessons).

Tom Payne

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