Re: Glass Harmonica

[Jacob and Nancy Bloom <bloom...>]

It could have been Jim Turner.

The musical glasses is the original instrument, the one that Mozart et al
composed for.  I believe that Ben Franklin invented the term Glass
Harmonica, along with the idea of laying out the glasses on a common
spindle, in an arrangement similar to the layout of a keyboard.

Jacob Bloom

----- Original Message -----
From: "Seth Austen" <seth (at) sethausten(dot)com>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 10:08 PM
Subject: Re: Glass Harmonica


> on 10/24/00 4:21 PM, Lori Cahan-Simon at l_cahan (at) staff(dot)chuh(dot)org 
> wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
>
> Sounds like the same guy, I wish I could remember his name. A number of
> years later, he played on Johnny Carson, or some similar late night TV
show.
> Yes, his chordal playing and harmonies were great.
>
> Obviously, there's different types of glass harmonicas, I knew he used
water
> in his.
>
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