Re: Glass Harmonica

[Joe Kurland <ganeydn...>]

His name was Bruno Hoffmann.  He recorded at least one LP, Music for 
Glass Harmonica, Vox STDL 501.110 including works of Mozart, 
Reichardt, Rollig, Schulz and Naumann.  He called his instrument a 
Glass Harp. I saw him in concert at MIT in the 1960's.  He did not 
fill the glasses with water, but had a vessel filled with water in 
the instrument so that he could dip his fingers in order to produce 
the sound.


Zayt gezunt (be healthy),

Yosl (Joe) Kurland
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At 12:07 AM -0400 10/25/00, Jacob and Nancy Bloom wrote:
>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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