Re: Glass Harmonica

[Joe Kurland <ganeydn...>]

Aha!  So there was more than one.


Zayt gezunt (be healthy),

Yosl (Joe) Kurland
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At 7:02 AM -0400 10/25/00, Lori Cahan-Simon wrote:
>As I wrote just previously, the guy I remember was Jim Turner, and 
>as correctly
>noted before, he used distilled water from a bowl he deftly dipped into.  He
>searched long and hard for the proper glasses, of various sizes, to ring
>beautifully.
>Lorele
>
>Joe Kurland wrote:
>
>  > 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.
>  >

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