In the 1780s, Hopkinson modified a glass harmonica to be played with a keyboard and invented the Bellarmonic, an instrument that utilized the tones of metal balls.

The glass harmonica has the word " harmonica " in its name, but it is not related to free-reed instruments.

The latter category includes the xylophone, the marimba, the glockenspiel, and the glass harmonica.

They are plucked idiophones, such as the jaw harp, amplified cactus, kouxian, dan moi, music box or mbira ( lamellophone / thumb piano ); blown idiophones, of which there are a very small number of examples, the Aeolsklavier being one ; and friction idiophones, such as the singing bowl, glass harmonica, glass harp, turntable, verrophone, daxophone, styrophone, musical saw, or nail violin ( a number of pieces of metal or wood rubbed with a bow ).

It is scored for two pianos, two violins, viola, cello, double bass, flute ( and piccolo ), clarinet ( C and B ), glass harmonica, and xylophone.

Normally a glockenspiel substitutes for the rare glass harmonica.

For example, several pieces call on the use of a siren while others will ask players to play recorders, a glass harmonica, or to sing.

The glass harmonica, also known as the glass armonica, bowl organ, hydrocrystalophone, or simply the armonica ( derived from " harmonia ," the Greek word for harmony ), is a type of musical instrument that uses a series of glass bowls or goblets graduated in size to produce musical tones by means of friction ( instruments of this type are known as friction idiophones ).

Because its sounding portion is made of glass, the glass harmonica is a crystallophone.

* The first public concert with a glass harmonica is performed by Marianne Davies.

While there he was introduced to a technician named Hessel, who had developed a keyboard version of the glass harmonica, an instrument Dussek went on to master.

He toured Germany for the next few years as a virtuoso performer on the piano and on the glass harmonica, eventually arriving in Paris in 1786.

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Featuring a crystal glass comb and specially engraved gold-plated cover plates, this is the harmonica to have.

The Happy Wanderers got their start in Leutonian vaudeville playing the gelkis ( an instrument, like the glass harmonica, made of glass jars, but played by smashing rather than sliding a finger along the wet rim ), and took up polka during wartime.

Previous glass instruments include the glass harmonica, and arrangements of ordinary drinking glasses ( approximately glass tubes closed at one end ).

The glass is out of it, but that won't matter.

Our new large-package ring twister for glass fiber yarns is performing well in our customers' mills.

The windshield glass is shatterproof and Plexiglas is used in the cabin.

Note: If 1/2-inch panel board is used inside and out, or 5/8-inch one side and 3/8-inch the other, and 1/8-inch glass is used, stock lumber in Af, Af, and Af can be used in making the glass panels.

As everybody is curious to see the battery of glass tubes I have invented, I have had quite a small one made here of four glass tubes ( in Copenhagen I used 30 ) and intend to carry it with me ''.

Sheeting cast from this material reportedly weighs only one-third as much as glass, is impervious to all kinds of weather, and will not yellow.

It is not an entirely happy book, as Mrs. Fink soon becomes jealous of Alicia and, in retaliation, refuses to continue to scrape the algae off her glass.

The suburban branch is thereby credited with a sale which would have been made even if its glass doors had never opened.

Libyan Desert silica-glass, another natural glass, is composed of nearly pure silica and has the same trace germanium content as sands in the area.

This glass is probably formed from Libyan Desert sands by comet or stony-meteorite impact.

but again, as one will have observed at any restaurant worth its salt, wine should be served in a large, tulip-shaped glass, which is never filled more than half full.

To quote Professor Saintsbury: `` The last glass of claret or Burgundy is as good as the first ; ;

but the first glass of Chateau d'Yquem or Montrachet is a great deal better than the last ''!!

He doesn't think that potting them from a deck chair on the south side of the house with a quart glass of beer for sustenance is entirely sporting.

At juice bars in Los Angeles' 35 `` health '' stores, a new sensation is a pink, high-protein cocktail, concocted of dried eggs, powdered milk and cherry-flavored No-Cal, which sells for 59-cents per 8-oz. glass.

It is a popular belief that alchemists made contributions to the " chemical " industries of the day — ore testing and refining, metalworking, production of gunpowder, ink, dyes, paints, cosmetics, leather tanning, ceramics, glass manufacture, preparation of extracts, liquors, and so on ( it seems that the preparation of aqua vitae, the " water of life ", was a fairly popular " experiment " among European alchemists ).

The gases are contained in a test-tube ( A ) standing over a large quantity of weak alkali ( B ), and the current is conveyed in wires insulated by U-shaped glass tubes ( CC ) passing through the liquid and round the mouth of the test-tube.

It is a great undulating surface covered with plaster fragments of colored glass discs combined with 330 rounds of polychrome pottery.

The design is complemented by joinery windows set with multicolored stained glass.

It is often stated that a unit of alcohol is supplied by a small glass of wine, half a pint of beer, or a single measure of spirits.

Noyes also used stop motion to animate sand laying on glass for his musical animated film Sandman ( 1975 ).

The Lustre Chantant or musical lamp, invented by Frederik Kastner, was a large chandelier with glass pipes of varying lengths each illuminated and heated by an individual gas jet.

Excavations of Chu tombs have found painted wooden sculptures, jade disks, glass beads, musical instruments, and an assortment of lacquerware.

After reviewing three designs, two of which were patterned after the existing trophy, a new trophy design was selected featuring a glass human figure surrounded by a nickel-coated spiral symbolic of a musical staff situated on a base of aluminum.

Otaru's prominent industries are arts and crafts, such as studio glass and musical boxes.

He donated a stained glass window, known as " The Music Man Window ", above the pew where he would sit, which represented various musical instruments.

In addition, free musical performances are presented in a gazebo on the grounds and there is a small cafe restaurant nearby, under the trees, with both indoor and outdoor seating from which many people enjoy the music over a glass of wine.

" In contrast to the use of sama, whirling and devotional prayer in the practice of dhikr, the tariqa orders perform Sufi whirling in addition to playing musical instruments, consuming glowing embers, live scorpions and glass, puncturing body parts with needles and spikes, or practicing clairvoyance and levitation.

Completion of the project also includes three tiers of glass fronted lobbies overlooking Philosopher ’ s Walk, back-of-house areas for performers, a ground-floor café, and installation of a unique collection of antique musical instruments donated by the Koerner family and valued at $ 1 million.

The melody on the album's eight tracks was often carried by the bassline, while an array of samples ( including running water, breaking glass, car crashes, fax machines ) built the musical collages ; the music on D. I.

The original chapel was quite plain and did not feature any pews, musical instruments, art glass windows, or even a pulpit and altar.

Theatre historian John Kenrick called it a " clumsy remake " of the musical, but noted that Bernadette Peters ' " shtick trying on the glass slipper is hilarious ".

A verrophone is a musical instrument, invented in 1983 by Sascha Reckert, in which open-ended glass tubes are arranged in various sizes ( usually in a chromatic scale, arranged from large to small, like the pipes of a pipe organ ).

A crystallophone is a musical instrument that produces sound from glass.

An early notable example of a musical fountain choreographed live was the Pool of Industry at the 1939 New York World Fair, where three operators controlled the fountain, guided by a paper program that unscrolled under a glass window like the paper roll of a player piano-rather than controlling the effects directly like a piano roll, it was marked with commands that told the operators when to push the buttons and throw the switches.