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  Show Me Info About Glass_harmonica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The rims of wine glasses filled with water are rubbed by the player's fingers to create the notes.
Because its sounding portion is made of glass, the glass harmonica is a crystallophone.
The phenomenon of rubbing a wet finger around the rim of a wine goblet to produce tones is documented back to Renaissance times; Galileo considered the phenomenon (in his Two New Sciences), as did Athanasius Kircher.
www.musicalinstrumentsguide.com /show_me_info_about_Glass_harmonica   (2103 words)

  
  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Crystallophone
A crystallophone is a musical instrument that produces sound from glass.
One of the most well known crystallophones is the glass harmonica, a set of rotating glass bowls which produce eerie, clear tones when rubbed with a wet finger.
The glasschord (or glasscord) resembles the celesta but uses keyboard-driven hammers to strike glass bars instead of metal bars.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Crystallophone   (129 words)

  
 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.
Sets of glasses struck with sticks as a percussion instrument have existed since ancient times.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Glass_harmonica   (1128 words)

  
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image:Glass Harmonica.jpg 400pxthumbA glass harmonica A '''crystallophone''' is a musical instrument that produces sound from glass.
The glasschord (or glasscord) resembles the celesta but uses musical keyboard keyboard-driven hammers to strike glass bars instead of metal bars.
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www.mauspfeil.net /Crystallophone.html   (200 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Glass harmonica
A glass harmonica, also known as glass armonica or simply armonica is a type of musical instrument that uses a series of glass bowls graduated in size to produce musical tones by means of friction (instruments of this type are known as friction idiophones).
Because it is made of glass, it is a crystallophone.
The instrument was invented by a Richard Puckeridge.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Glass_harmonica   (307 words)

  
 Musicmuseum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
A Crystallophone is anything that makes sound by the means of (crystal) glas.
Here a number of wine glasess make sound when rubbed with a wet finger.
The instrument was newer new, but assembled of used parts.
musikmuseum.dk /1XFO1.HTM   (102 words)

  
 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Crystallophone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
This is an extract from The Middle East Open Encyclopedia, made possible through the Wikimedia Foundation.
Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Crystallophone; all previous versions may be viewed here.
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www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref?title=Crystallophone   (282 words)

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