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glass harmonica

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glass harmonica: see harmonica harmonica.

1 The simplest of the musical instruments employing free reeds, known also as the mouth organ or French harp. It was probably invented in 1829 by Friedrich Buschmann of Berlin, who called his instrument the Mundäoline.
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Researching the weird and wonderful instrument, made up of 54 specially-tuned glass rods, led Hawley on to other leftfield instruments such as the ondes Martenot (a very early electronic instrument), the glass harmonica, which sounds like rubbing a wet finger around the rim of a crystal glass, and Tibetan singing bowls.
There is a musical saw, a Cristal Baschet - made up of 54 glass rods - and a glass harmonica which makes a sound similar to rubbing a wet finger around the rim of a crystal glass.
I'd heard of a lot of these instruments and heard how they sounded, like the glass harmonica.
 
 
 
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