A glass armonica, originally invented by Benjamin Franklin and revived at a recent performance at the Park Avenue Armory (photo by the author for Hyperallergic) In 1761, Benjamin Franklin invented an ...

If you have ever entertained dinner guests by running a wet fingertip around the edge of a crystal goblet to create a musical tone, you have experienced the pure sound that inspired one of Benjamin ...

Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and the passage of time. While some vanished completely, others survived by the ...

Starting tonight, a group of experimental musicians in B.C. will give a series of performances using instruments and objects made solely from glass. The project sees three musicians from Victoria's ...

TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Ancient Japanese musical instruments have taken on a new shine after one group decided to make theirs out of glass, instead of traditional wood. Drums and flutes play a major ...

SOLVING a crossword puzzle one day some 30 years ago, a young Austrian violinist couple named Christa and Gerald Schönfeldinger came across a reference to an instrument they had never heard of, ...

Friedrich Heinrich Kern plays a version of the glass harmonica called the verrophone for Opera Philadelphia's production of "Written on Skin." (Emma Lee/WHYY) On Friday, Opera Philadelphia will ...

It was the first and only time that Dennis James smacked a celebrity. During a 1999 taping of “Live with Regis and Kathie Lee,” Regis Philbin excitedly got up, strode over to James and reached for his ...

AS A CHILD, Jamey Turner took piano lessons. He also studied violin. But over dinner with his family, he discovered a different instrument – the wine glass. “When I heard my dad playing a stemmed ...

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