Crazy glass armonica


This "glass armonica" a banned musical instrument apparently “causes insanity” - I'm not sure about that but it's gorgeous looking and sounding... (more about it at the Wikipedia too).

Posted by Phillip Torrone | May 10, 2008 01:00 AM
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Posted by: Brian on May 10, 2008 at 6:45 AM

Featured prominently in an episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.

http://www.wttw.com/main.taf?erube_fh=wttw&wttw.submit.EpisodeDetail=1&wttw.EpisodeID=57275&wttw.Channel=WTTW


Posted by: Jamie on May 10, 2008 at 11:53 AM

The old glass armonicas were made out of leaded crystal so the people who played them a lot would get lead poisoning. Thus, the craziness.


Posted by: on May 10, 2008 at 2:26 PM

Made me go insane; but then, what do I know. I'm insane.


Posted by: Tyler on May 11, 2008 at 3:43 AM

WOW

Haahahah, thanks guys! You guys rock!

http://oddstrument.com


Posted by: JTony on May 11, 2008 at 10:12 PM

Wasn't this invented by Ben Franklin?


Posted by: JTony on May 11, 2008 at 10:15 PM

I guess if I read the Wikipedia link I'd know that, yes, it was invented by Ben Franklin.


Posted by: Joel on May 14, 2008 at 12:12 PM

A great performance

We've seen Dean Shostak play this thing every holiday season for the past four or five years. It's truly a haunting and fascinating performance.

He's added other glass instruments over the years. He now plays a 100% glass violin on stage as well.

There was a rumor of a glass Cello. But I don't know how that's going.


Posted by: on June 9, 2008 at 2:42 AM

here a link to a virual glass armonica
http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/musician/virtualarmonica.html


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