Re: Glass Harmonica

[Seth Austen <seth...>]

on 10/25/00 12:07 AM, Jacob and Nancy Bloom at bloom (at) gis(dot)net 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.
> 


Yes, that's who I heard, Jim Turner. I'd been racking my brain, and had
remembered Jim, no last name. Thanks. I stand corrected on the size of the
glasses, they weren't all the same. It definitely was distilled water
though.

Seth


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