glass harmonica (Glass bowls mounted on spindle)
~ Percussion instrument
Description
Taking the concept of musical glasses but mounting the incrementing bowls on a turnable spindle, it is played with damp fingers.
Annotation
Hornbostel-Sachs: 133.2
Annotation last modified on 2014-08-04 17:06 UTC.
Relationships
| invented by: | Benjamin Franklin (US 18th century author, printer, politician, freemason, scientist, inventor, civic activist & diplomat) (in 1761) |
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| type of: | friction idiophone |
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| derived from: | glass harp (Musical Glasses) |
