Re: Glass Harmonica

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

That's right!  It was Jim Turner.  Sweet guy.  And tall and thin.  His whole
body moved beautifully, as a dance, as he bent over to play.  I wonder if he is
still playing now?
Lorele

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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> >
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> >
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