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    Get to Know Us. Not Enabled Word Wise: Enabled Average Customer Review: After thirty years of experimentation, Finkenbeiner's imitative prototype consisted of clear glasses and glasses later equipped with gold bands mimicking late 18th-century designs. The historical instruments with gold bands indicated the equivalent of the black keys on the piano, simplifying the multi-hued painted bowl rims with white accidentals as specified by Franklin.

    The Cristal di Baschet differs mainly from the other glass instruments in that the identical length and thickness glass rods are set horizontally, and attach to the tuned metal stems that have added metal blocks for increasing resonance. The result is a fully acoustic instrument, and impressive amplification obtained using fiberglass or metal cones fixed on wood and by a tall cut-out multi-resonant metal part in the shape of a flame.

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    Some thin added metallic wires resembling cat whiskers are placed under the instrument, supposedly to increase the sound power of high-pitched frequencies. Dennis James recorded an album of all glass music, Cristal: I can still recall being mesmerized by the appearance of the original Benjamin Franklin armonica then on display in its own showcase in the entry rotunda of the city's famed science museum. The Wrath of Khan. Another instrument that is also played with wet fingers is the hydraulophone.

    The technique for playing the hydraulophone is similar to that used for playing the armonica. President of Pennsylvania — , Ambassador to France — From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For the related instrument, see Glass harp.

    Not to be confused with Jal tarang. The Fixed Stars, the Frontier to the Beyond. A piece played almost entirely on a glass harmonica. Cristal baschet Glass diatonic harmonica , a diatonic harmonica constructed from glass Hydraulophone Sensitive style Singing bowl Verrophone Waterphone. A Comprehensive Dictionary , corrected edition New York: Retrieved 6 April Power Biggs Attempts a Keyboard Armonica". Includes a video demonstration. Archived from the original on April 5, Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Archived from the original on The bel canto operas of Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini. The New York Times. Retrieved 5 April Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung , 10 May Obituary written by Marianne Kirchgessner's manager Heinrich Bossler. Chapter 11, "The Perils of Lead" p. Elijah Wald — Writer, Musician.

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    Retrieved April 18, This article's use of external links may not follow Wikipedia's policies or guidelines. Please improve this article by removing excessive or inappropriate external links, and converting useful links where appropriate into footnote references. March Learn how and when to remove this template message. Because of its almost immediate popularity, the glass armonica seemed destined for permanence.

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    But by the s, it was nearly a forgotten instrument. Over the years, some disturbing events began to be associated with the glass armonica. Some armonica players became ill and had to stop playing the instrument. They complained of muscle spasms, nervousness, cramps, and dizziness. A few listeners were also subject to ill effects; after an incident in Germany where a child died during a performance, the armonica was actually banned in a few towns.

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    Some people thought that the high-pitched, ethereal tones invoked the spirits of the dead, had magical powers, or drove listeners mad. Others thought that lead from the crystal bowls or paint was absorbed into the musicians' fingers when they touched the glass, causing sickness. No explanation or proof was ever really given to any of these claims. Franklin himself ignored all of the controversy and continued to play the instrument until the end of his life with none of the symptoms mentioned. But the armonica's popularity never really returned to what it had been when it was first introduced.

    At the time of his death in , when more than 5, of them had been built, Ben Franklin had collected no money from his glass armonica. He refused to patent any of his inventions, saying:. Ben certainly gave freely and generously, constantly investing time and energy to make his ideas a useful or entertaining reality.

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    Some said the glass armonica was magical, but perhaps the man responsible for it was. Franklin made it possible to create beautiful sounds with the touch of a finger, sounds that his wife Deborah once called, "the music of the angels.

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