Glass harmonica
The instrument has a number of glass bowls of different sizes attached to a horizontal axis. As the axis rotates, the musician touches the glass bowls with wet fingers.
Benjamin Franklin is credited as the inventor of the glass harmonica.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Georg Friedrich Händel, Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Strauss, and more than 100 other composers composed works for the glass harmonica; some pieces survived in the repertoire in transcriptions for more conventional instruments.
Unfortunately, this picture is a little blurry.
Czech Museum of Music, Prague
Glass harmonica
The instrument has a number of glass bowls of different sizes attached to a horizontal axis. As the axis rotates, the musician touches the glass bowls with wet fingers.
Benjamin Franklin is credited as the inventor of the glass harmonica.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Georg Friedrich Händel, Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Strauss, and more than 100 other composers composed works for the glass harmonica; some pieces survived in the repertoire in transcriptions for more conventional instruments.
Unfortunately, this picture is a little blurry.
Czech Museum of Music, Prague