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| | Glass harmonica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The glass harmonica, also known as glass armonica or simply armonica (derived from "armonia," the Italian word for harmony) is a type of musical instrument that uses a series of glass bowls or goblets graduated in size to produce musical tones by means of friction (instruments of this type are known as friction idiophones). | | | Because its sounding portion is made of glass, the glass harmonica is a crystallophone. | | | By 1820 the glass armonica had disappeared from public performance, perhaps because musical fashions were changing -- music was moving out of the relatively small aristocratic halls of Mozart's day into larger and larger concert halls of Beethoven and his successors, and the delicate sound of the armonica simply could not be heard. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_harmonica
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| | Harmonica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The harmonica is commonly used in blues and folk music, but also in jazz, classical music, country music, rock and roll and pop music. | | | The first recordings of harmonica were made in the US in the 1920s. | | | Tremolo harmonicas are perhaps the most common form of harmonica in the world, being very popular in folk music as well as in much of East Asia. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonica
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| | What is a Glass Harmonica? |
| | It is possible that players of the glass harmonica may have acquired lead poisoning from the glass used, but the claims of ill-health effects of simply hearing the music are simply hysteria. | | | Soon all varieties of malady were being attributed to both the playing of the instrument and the hearing of the music. | | | Street performers in the eighteenth century made music this way, varying the notes by varying the amount of water in each glass. |
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http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-glass-harmonica.htm
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| | Music for Glass Harmonica - DVD Film: Totaltiorden.dk |
| | I have loved this "album" for years on vinyl and it is wonderful to see that VOX is reissuing this on CD. | | | Glass harmonicas can now be purchased through G. Finkenbeiner Inc., and Dennis James has recorded a CD on the glass harmonica ("Glass Music from Mozart's Time"). | | | Note, however, that Bruno Hoffmann is not playing on a glass harmonica on this recording, but rather the musical glasses. |
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http://www.totaltiorden.dk/shop/dvd_details.php/B000001KAZdvd
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| | Glass Music: History |
| | Today, all the wonderful pieces of glass music again sound exactly as their creators meant them to sound. | | | In 1746, Christoph Willibald Gluck played a concert on “26 musical glasses, tuned with spring water” at the London Haymarket Theatre, having enthusiastically promised to perform “everything that can be done on a violin, or a harpsichord&;. | | | And there you are, producing the intriguing sound of the "musical glasses". |
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http://www.glasharfe.de/glasharfe/texte/history.htm
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| | Peter Bennett - Glass Harper |
| | Bennett's glass music can be heard on his tape "A Touch of Glass" while his whistling is featured on Seneca Moon String Band's recordings and on Tex Roe's LP record "Cortland Country Music." An environmental activist, Bennett also performs his own songs about our world and how we treat her. | | | Featured as harmonica player and whistler on Tex Roe's L.P.: CORTLAND COUNTRY MUSIC, with Seneca Moon on its eponymously named tape of old-timey fiddle band music, and his own cassette tape: A TOUCH OF GLASS featuring traditional, classical and original music played on the glass harmonica (with Ruth Thomson, Irish harpist). | | | The sound of the glass harp, according to a nineteenth century news article reviewing a concert, is "...heavenly, even angelic, with the ability to sweep the listener away with its soft, harmonious sounds." It was used by the great charlatan, Dr. Franz Mesmer, the Austrian hypnotist, to "Mesmerize" his subjects. |
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http://www.glassharper.com/pkprintable.html
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| | Franklin, fascinated by the "soft and pure sound of the musical glasses", modified them so as to increase their possibilities. | | | The increasing intensity of the sound of orchestras deterred musicians from using a fragile instrument with such a delicate sound. | | | It was called the angelic organ, then musical glasses or seraphim. |
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http://psychevanhetfolk.homestead.com/files/THOMAS_BLOCH.txt
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| | The Art of Science: Ben Franklin's Harmonica |
| | Repeat the procedure with different glasses and record the effect the shape or type of glass has on the sound generated. | | | Experiment with different glasses, much as Franklin did, to try to produce musical sounds. | | | Experiment and see who can master the glasses to play more complex music. |
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http://www.pbs.org/safarchive/4_class/44_guides/guide_804/4484_franklin.html
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| | 5GlassHarmo |
| | A german glass harmonica instruction manual from the 1700's categorically states that the sound of these instruments will not bring the dead back to life. | | | tuned to western scales while the glass harmonicas are. | | | aving performed in the first and second International Glass Music Festivals the members of the Glass Orchestra came to meet Gerhard Finkenbeiner who was building modern versions of Benjamin Franklin's Armonica. |
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http://www.vex.net/~rixax/GlassO/GlassHarmo.html
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| | Glass Harmonica - Big Harmonica Guide |
| | A glass harmonica is a type of musical instrument that uses nested glass bowls to produce musical tones. | | | What Erin and Eilish have in common is the love of the music of the glass harmonica. | | | Americana singer/songwriter and glass harmonica player Donal Hinely releases his critically acclaimed new CD We Built a Fire featuring Kim Richey and Will... |
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http://www.bigharmonicaguide.com/glass-harmonica.html
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| | Glass1 |
| | Largely because glass music often occurred in the hands of amateur performers, the history retains a misty and legendary quality. | | | The Glass Orchestra carries on this more exploratory tradition in the history of glass music. | | | In Europe, the earliest reference to musical glass date back to 1492. |
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http://www.vex.net/~rixax/GlassO/GOhistory.html
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| | inQuiry Attic - September, 1999 |
| | Franklin attended one of these concerts and was intrigued by the beauty of the sound. | | | During this period, it was quite popular and entertaining for amateur musicians to perform on sets of "singing" or musical glasses. | | | Moistened fingers touched to the edge of the spinning glasses produced the musical sounds. |
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http://www.fi.edu/qa99/attic9
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| | Northern Sound Source - Demo with Glass Harmonica |
| | But, again, the music lost it\'s clarity mainly because the glass harmonica was swallowing all sound. | | | In the loudest part of the piece I made the harmonica staccato. | | | I have another piece on my website that uses the glass harmonica--Humming Bird Waltz, arranged from a children\'s piano piece. |
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http://northernsounds.com/forum/printthread.php?t=14830
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| | WFMU's Beware of the Blog: The Glass Harmonica: Stairway to Madness |
| | The Glasharfe was popularized by Bruno Hoffman, the German virtuoso whose records rekindled interest in the Glass Harmonica (aka Armonica), and the compositions written for it from 1760-1820, when the instrument was the must-have accessory for parlors and sitting rooms. | | | Finkenbeiner Corporation of Massachusetts, and glass music of all stripes is making a comeback. | | | Listener Max sends in this mp3 of Stairway to Heaven, as performed on the streets of New Orleans by an unidentified Glass Harmonica player. |
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http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/06/stairway_to_hea.html
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| | Glasnots, Brave Spirits |
| | Still, as enjoyable as the vocal pieces are, the highlight of any Glasnots album is the harmonica's solo take on an instrumental -- be it traditional or original. | | | Here the harmonica is content to set the atmosphere, while Donal's dominant guitar and brooding vocals determine the direction. | | | In this case, Glasnots treats listeners to two well-known classics in "Lord of the Dance" and "Scarborough Faire." In all honesty, hearing the wavering tones of ethereal sound dance around and breathe new life into these chestnuts will forever ruin you to any other versions of the songs. |
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http://www.rambles.net/glasnots_brave.html
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| | Donal Hinely-Glass Harmonica CDs |
| | Traditional Scots/Irish tunes and original songs performed on the glass harmonica. | | | 14 traditional Christmas songs performed on the glass harmonica. | | | The particular instrument used in these recordings has a |
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http://www.donalhinely.com/GlassHarmonica.htm
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| | Armonica |
| | A Brief History of Glass Music - This article includes a discussion of other types of glass music, as well as the glass armonica. | | | There are varying opinions about the origin of musical glasses, but the concept seems to be almost as ancient as glass itself. | | | I did not attempt to use glass armonica music as my background music because it tends to take a long time to load. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/7353/armonica.html
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| | Search Results for harmonica - Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | African-American blues singer and harmonica virtuoso, one of the most influential harmonica improvisers of the late 20th century. | | | U.S. 1930s and '40s dance star who performed to classical music in concert halls, using a combination of tap and ballet; his partnership with harmonica player Larry Adler ended when both were... | | | original name Saunders Terrell American blues singer and harmonica player who became the touring and recording partner of guitarist Brownie McGhee in 1941. |
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http://www.britannica.com/search?query=harmonica&submit=Find&source=MWTAB
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| | Guardian Unlimited Arts news Unique glass harmonica stars in new opera |
| | He described the contribution of his glass harmonica as a sound that seems to come out of the air, "the sound of angels or spirits, a sound not of this earth... | | | Franklin's produced enough volume for chamber music, but not for an opera house. | | | City elders join forces in bid to derail Jerry Springer tour |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1091742,00.html
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| | Guardian Unlimited Arts reviews The Devil's in the detail |
| | It is most insistent in the improvised clashes of sound created at various moments by some of the more suck-it-and-see instruments on display: the toy piano, the glass harmonica, the flugel, the didgeridoo, the swanee whistle. | | | Much of this Germanic discordancy works its way into his songs: it's there in the strains of the pump organ and Waits's trademark soused keyboards ('The piano has been drinking,' as he has always claimed, 'not me'). | | | These back-of-the-attic items are wielded to mesmerising effect by an eight-piece orchestra, called The Magic Bullets, led by drummer Bent Clausen, who also worked with Waits and Wilson on Woyzeck. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/observer/story/0,14467,1222438,00.html
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| | SAF's Ask the Scientists: G. Finkenbeiner's Q & A |
| | What kinds of music is mostly played on glass harmonicas these days? | | | I thought it had a beautiful sound and would love to have one. | | | Do you know of any recordings (CD's or tapes) of the glass harmonica? |
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http://www.pbs.org/safarchive/3_ask/archive/qna/3284_finkenbeiner.html
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| | Louise Marley: The Glass Harmonica |
| | One of the strengths of the novel is Marley's understanding of the musical sound and theory of the glass harmonica, giving a deep sense of realism to the musical portions of the novel. | | | As with any novel about music, it comes with its own soundtrack which includes standard works by Haydn, Handel and other eighteenth century composers as well as the more esoteric work written for the glass harmonica and Marley's own fictional symphony "Moving Mars," based on Greg Bear's Hugo-winning novel of the same title. | | | A glass harmonica is a musical instrument developed in the seventeenth century by Benjamin Franklin. |
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| | Re: All Things Must Pass |
| | Tours will take place at night, by candlelight, and visitors will "enter his upstairs parlour to the ghostly sounds of the glass armonica "...("armonica" is how the Independent spelt it which makes me wonder who is right... | | | Tours will take place at night, by candlelight, and > visitors will "enter his upstairs parlour to the ghostly sounds of the > glass armonica "...("armonica" is how the Independent spelt it which makes > me wonder who is right... | | | >visitors will "enter his upstairs parlour to the ghostly sounds of the >glass armonica "...("armonica" is how the Independent spelt it which makes >me wonder who is right... |
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http://www.things.org/music/al_stewart/digest_archives/v03.n1975
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| | [Exotica] Glass Harmonica |
| | I have two lps of glass harmonica music, one of which (on the Vox label) has been reissued on cd at least twice. | | | CONFIDENTIAL E-MAIL FROM SLAUGHTER AND MAY ____________________________________________________________________________ I notice there's lots of glass harmonica CDs on Ebay at the mo. Charlie -----Original Message----- From: astroboy [mailto:astroboy at triad.rr.com] Sent: 08 March 2004 14:32 To: Strange and unusual music. | | | Some other tidbits of info about this instrument are that Mozart was supposed to be an accomplished player as was the hypnotist Franz Anton Mesmer (whose name inspired the term 'mesmerized') Supposedly many accomplished players died prematurely or went insane, so the instrument gained a reputation of being cursed. |
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http://mailman.xmission.com/pipermail/exotica/2004-March/016620.html
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| | Bakken glass armonica |
| | Before each concert, the performer would tune the instrument by filling each glass with just the right amount of water to ensure the availability of all the tones required by the music. | | | The red label on the front of the music book on the stand reads "Madame Brillon" and it includes several sonatas written for the clavecin or the piano. | | | The music of the glass armonica was also a component of the healing sessions conducted by Franz Anton Mesmer during the heyday of his Parisian practice (1778 through the 1780s) and he continued to play it at home in his retirement in his native Germany. |
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http://www.thebakken.org/exhibits/mesmer/glass-armonica.htm
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| | Louise Marley, 'The Glass Harmonica' |
| | However, is it they who create the music, or is it the Glass Harmonica? | | | But Eilish suffers through everything, living only for her beloved music, and the glass armonica. | | | As long as she has her music, she can survive anything. |
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| | Science Fiction Book Reviews |
| | Readers will hear the lushly described music played by both women as Erin and Eilish wrestle with the glass harmonica's alleged demons. | | | The small world of the concert circuit in 2018, which dominates Erin and Charlie's lives, is vivid and fascinating. | | | In The Glass Harmonica, author Louise Marley makes excellent use of her experience in the world of professional music. |
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http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue180/books2.html
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| | Glass Music Home Page |
| | Here you will find information about the glass armonica and glass music. | | | Online ordering of select titles from this site is now available. |
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| | JR.com: Glass Harmonica - Beethoven, Mozart, Donizetti, Apell, et al in Music: Classical: |
| | Performers: Bloch, Thomas - Glass Armonica (Gerhard Finkenbeiner) ; Gagnepain, Xavier - Cello ; Sulem, Jean - Viola ; Sulem-Bialobroda, Agnès - Violin ; Tercieux, Thomas - Violin | | | Performers: Bloch, Thomas - Glass Armonica (Gerhard Finkenbeiner) ; Gagnepain, Xavier - Cello ; Marder, Marc [doublebass] - Double Bass ; Sulem, Jean - Viola ; Sulem-Bialobroda, Agnès - Violin ; Tercieux, Thomas - Violin | | | Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) Period: Classical Form / Genre: Incidental Music / Melodrama |
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| | William Zeitler - About The Armonica |
| | Galileo writes about musical sound from wine glasses | | | The glass armonica and the "Room of the Phantasmagoria" | | | What's Different about the Sound of Singing Bowls? |
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| | The Drift |
| | For more, see "Heavenly Crystal Music," by Celia Johnson at http://www.arts4all.com/newsletter/issue4/johnson.html You can listen to Yatri play "Slow Prism" on the Glass Harmonica in the Newsletter's Digital Library at http://www.arts4all.com/newsletter/dlb_gateway.html | | | Thomas Bloch has played with John Cage and Radiohead, among many others. | | | Rare instrument specialist Thomas Bloch has given over 1,900 performances and has participated in about 40 recordings, playing such unusual instruments as the Glass Harmonica, Cristal Baschet and Ondes Martenot. |
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http://www.arts4all.com/newsletter/driftitem.asp?DID=330
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| | Play The Armonica |
| | Like the real armonica, the tone will linger as you click on the next bowl, putting tones together to make a melody. | | | Armonica musicians, like Ben Franklin, have to develop a special touch in order to make pleasant, haunting melodies on the glass armonica. | | | This online interactive armonica has been made possible by her generous assistance and support. |
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http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/musician/virtualarmonica.html
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| | glass harmonica |
| | A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones; it is now called the glass harmonica, to distinguish it from the common harmonica, formerly called the harmonicon. | | | A toy instrument of strips of glass or metal hung on two tapes, and struck with hammers. | | | A small wind musical instrument shaped like a flat bar with holes along the thin edges, held in the hand and producing notes from multiple vibrating reeds arranged inside along its length; it was formerly called the harmonicon. |
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http://dictionaries.cc/glass_harmonica
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| | HARMONICA - Online Information article about HARMONICA |
| | April 1746, at which he performed on musical glasses a See also: | | | tone elicited by Delaval and Pockrich, and with the possibilities of the glasses as musical instruments, that he set to See also: | | | verrillon), the principle of which was known already in the 17th century.' The invention of musical glasses is generally ascribed to an Irishman, See also: |
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http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/HAN_HEG/HARMONICA.html
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| | The Glass Harmonica -- Louise Marley |
| | What Erin and Eilish have in common is the love of the music of the glass harmonica. | | | Eilish is found by Benjamin Franklin, who, charmed by her playing on the glasses, takes her in to help with the tuning of the glass harmonica, which he is trying to perfect. | | | Erin Rushton is a professional musician in 2018, playing the glass harmonica to audiences newly interested in the o ld instrument, in a society going through a serious nostalgia fit. |
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http://www.nesfa.org/reviews/Carey/glass.htm
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| | Archived Weblog Entry - 12/21/2001: "Glass Harmonica Resurgence" |
| | The armonica's tones, produced by glass bowls of graduated sizes, were reputed to mimic the angels, mesmerize helpless listeners and awaken the spirits of the departed. | | | A few decades later, the armonica nearly disappeared because of changing musical tastes and unfounded fears that it caused emotional maladies. | | | Alright, is it "harmonica" or "armonica" as in this Seattle Times story? |
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| | MSN Encarta - Dictionary - glass harmonica definition |
| | It was popular as a musical instrument in the 18th century, when various mechanical versions also existed. | | | musical glasses: a set of drinking glasses or glass bowls, filled to graduated levels with water, that produce sounds of different pitches when their rims are rubbed with a moist finger. | | | MSN Encarta - Dictionary - glass harmonica definition |
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| | Wine Glass Acoustics |
| | I think taking a deeper look at wine glass acoustics with different density liquids in the glass would be fascinating and might be something I will take a more in-depth look at in the future. | | | In the 1960’s Ben Franklin invented the first American made musical instrument, the glass harmonica (Miley, 2). | | | When one rubs their finger around a glass, the glass vibrates similarly to the string on a violin vibrates when it is rubbed with a bow (Sabbeth, 7). |
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http://tuhsphysics.ttsd.k12.or.us/Research/ib00/Springer/wineglass.htm
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| | Naxos.com, Your World of Classical Music |
| | Thomas Bloch, glass harmonica / Ettore Borri, piano / Montserrat Sanroma, soprano | | | Philippe Bernold, flute / Thomas Bloch, glass harmonica / Maurice Bourgue, oboe / Xavier Gagnepain, cello / Agnes Sulem-Bialobroda, violin | | | Thomas Bloch, glass harmonica / Fabrice di Falco, soprano / Christine Icart, harp / Yves Le Pech, soprano / Damien Top, tenor |
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http://www.naxos.com/mainsite/NaxosCat/Naxos_Cat.asp?item_code=8.555295
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| | MozartForum - View Single Post - Glass Harmonica CD |
| | MozartForum - View Single Post - Glass Harmonica CD Thread: Glass Harmonica CD | | | As a Braves fan, the World Series is of importantce to me because the "Curse of the Bambino" is apparently lifted. |
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| | Blogger: Email Post to a Friend |
| | Well, there I was on my daily commute minding my own business listening to random Mozart pieces on my iPod, when all of a sudden this extraordinary noise filled my headphones - a strange, fluting sound with a crystalline edge, not dissimilar from a theremin but clearly from completely the wrong period. | | | It turned out to be Mozart's Adagio for solo glass harmonica (K356), one of two pieces he wrote for the glass harmonica virtuoso Marianne Kirchgässner when she visited Vienna in 1791, Mozart's final year. | | | For those who don't want to go quite that far, I also dug up quite a few sound samples of glass harmonicas (including both the Mozart pieces) here, though free registration is required. |
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http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=6341340&postID=108439863033047500
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| | Glass Harmonica |
| | Constanze sings of her resolve not to be bested by either of these formidable adversaries. | | | Both men return to their respective hotel rooms and write letters to their loved ones explaining their difficulty in obtaining the Glass Harmonica and of the history of their animosity towards each other. | | | She is distressed and sings an aria, mourning her husband and resolving not to give the glass harmonica to either Franklin or Mesmer. |
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| | Amazon.com: The Glass Harmonica : A Novel: Explore similar items |
| | Eilish Eam, an Irish orphan from Seven Dials, is saved from a life of squalor when Franklin hears her playing musical glasses on the street. | | | Marley's genre-crossing tale of music and healing is built, literally, around the human bones found beneath Benjamin Franklin's London abode. | | | Amazon.com: The Glass Harmonica : A Novel: Explore similar items |
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| | Glass armonica |
| | See also Glasharfe, Glass harp, glass harmonica, and musical glasses. | | | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, among others, wrote several compositions for the Glass Armonica. | | | Franklin's instrument consisted of a number of glass bowls without stems which rotated in a tray of water. |
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http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/textg/Glassarmonica.html
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| | He called the instrument : Seraphim (or Musical Glasses). | | | Since the 9th century, people have struck glasses with sticks to obtain sounds. | | | They were fitted into one another, but not in contact, with a horizontal rod — whose rotation was controlled by a pedal — going through their centers. |
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http://www.chez.com/thomasbloch/engGLASS.htm
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| | BiblioTravel: The Glass Harmonica |
| | The parallel storyline of The Glass Harmonica is about a musician named Erin Rushton who lives in Seattle in 2018. | | | She is a famous player of the instrument of the title, and her brother Charlie composes many of the pieces that she plays. | | | The storylines from the two eras are connected by their main characters, both of whom play the instrument of the title, a glass harmonica. |
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http://www.bibliotravel.com/books.php?book=635
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