Re: Glass Harmonica

[Lori Cahan-Simon <l_cahan...>]

I remember him.  He used to play under the pavilion at Newmarket on 2nd street
between Lombard and South alot.  Really nice guy.  As I recall, his were all
separate glasses, NOT all of the same size, played by running the fingers around
the rims, not the B. Franklin spindle arrangment.  My favorite part was when he
would play harmonies and chords with many fingers at once on his judiciously
juxtaposed glasses.

Lorele

Seth Austen wrote:

> on 10/24/00 11:35 AM, Peter Rushefsky at rushefsky_p (at) 
> univerahealthcare(dot)org
> wrote:
>
> > The glasses of different shapes are attached together, put on their sides.
> > I'm
> > no gh maven, but I'm pretty sure there's no water needed (the variable glass
> > size determines the pitch).
> >
>
> Years ago in Philadelphia I heard a street musician brilliantly performing
> Mozart, etc. on the glass harmonica. I talked to him extensively about his
> particular instrument, he only used DISTILLED water in crystal goblets (all
> the same size). This was 20 some years ago, perhaps new developments on the
> instrument have made it possible to have different sized glasses without
> water, certainly would make it easier to set-up before a gig...
>
> I can hardly wait to hear what Frank London did with Hazones and glass harp,
> harmonium, etc on the new CD. He previewed some of the material onstage at
> KlezKanada, it was among my most favorite performances of the week.
>
> Seth
>
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