Re: Glass Harmonica & Frank London

[Trudi Goodman <goobietheg...>]

   I have also heard this system referred to as a Glass Harmonium.
     Trudi the G


>From: Matt Jaffey <mjaffey2 (at) mum(dot)edu>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: Glass Harmonica & Frank London
>Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 13:47:19
>
>Thanks to r l reid for clarifying the difference between a glass harmonica
>and a bunch of half filled wine glasses. I also enjoyed looking over the
>URL's suggested by Bryan Stover, in which there are illustrations of glass
>harmonica's, which are in the "spindle mounted glass bowl" formation.
>According to these URL's the invention is indeed attributed to Benjamin
>Franklin, and the problem with the lead in the glass wasn't insanity - it
>was death.
>
>My prior entry on this thread made a wrong assumption for the following
>reason: Frank London's own PR about his new "cantorial based" album says he
>uses a glass harmonica. I saw him on TV playing "cantorial based" music,
>and being accompanied by a bunch of upright goblets, each partially filled
>with water. I assumed his PR was referring to the "instrument" that I saw
>accompanying him. So either he misused the term "glass harmonica", or he's
>tried both approaches, one on the album, and the other on TV.
>
>Matt
>
>

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