"Berlin Musical Instrument Museum The Berlin Musical Instrument Museum () is located at the Kulturforum on Tiergartenstraße in Berlin, Germany. The Museum holds over 3,500 musical instruments from the 16th century onward and is one of the largest and most representative musical instrument collections in Germany. Objects include a portable harpsichord once owned by Prussia’s Queen Sophie Charlotte, flutes from the collection of Frederick the Great, and Benjamin Franklin’s glass harmonica. The Museum was founded in 1888 at the Royal Academy of Music in Berlin from a collection assembled by Philipp Spitta and Joseph Joachim. Thirty-four instruments from the Museum"
"Glass harp A glass harp (also called musical glasses, singing glasses, angelic organ, verrilion or ghost fiddle) is a musical instrument made of upright wine glasses. It is played by running moistened or chalked fingers around the rim of the glasses. Each glass is tuned to a different pitch, either by grinding each goblet to the specified pitch, in which case the tuning is invariable, or by filling the glass with water until the desired pitch is achieved. Musical glasses were documented in Persia in the 14th century. The glass harp was created in 1741 by Irishman Richard Pockrich, who"
"Glass harmonica The glass harmonica, also known as the glass armonica, glass harmonium, bowl organ, hydrocrystalophone, or simply the armonica or harmonica (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). The name ""glass harmonica"" (also ""glass armonica"", ""glassharmonica""; ""harmonica de verre"", ""harmonica de Franklin"", ""armonica de verre"", or just ""harmonica"" in French; ""Glasharmonika"" in German; ""harmonica"" in Dutch) refers today to any instrument played"
"his glass harmonica in 1763 after attending a recital performed on musical glasses in London in 1761. Crystallophone A crystallophone is a musical instrument that produces sound from glass. One of the best known crystallophones is the glass harmonica, a set of rotating glass bowls which produce eerie, clear tones when rubbed with a wet finger. Musical glasses, the glass harp, where documented in Persia in the 14th century. The ""ethereal"" quality of instruments such as the glass harmonica exemplified the ""Empfindsamkeit"" and for a while, ""the instrument was extraordinarily popular...[but] About 1830 the instrument fell into oblivion."" The glasschord"
"the glass harmonica and some other glass instruments and generally has a range from G3 to F6 (which can be extended in the higher register with wine glasses, giving it a range up to D7). Every piece composed originally for glass harmonica can be played on the verrophone. The term ""verrophone"" originally referred to a glass harp. Previous glass instruments include the glass harmonica and arrangements of ordinary drinking glasses (approximately glass tubes closed at one end). The verrophone is capable of louder dynamics than the glass harp due to its larger radiating surfaces. Modern artists such as Barry Prophet"
"by rubbing glass or crystal goblets or bowls. The alternate instrument consisting of a set of wine glasses (usually tuned with water) is generally known in English as ""musical glasses"" or the ""glass harp"". When Benjamin Franklin invented his mechanical version of the instrument in 1761, he called it the armonica, based on the Italian word ""armonia"", which means ""harmony"". The unrelated free-reed wind instrument aeolina, today called the ""harmonica"", was not invented until 1821, sixty years later. The word ""hydrodaktulopsychicharmonica"" is also recorded, composed of Greek roots to mean something like ""harmonica to produce music for the soul by"
"of the Music Gallery have produced glass instruments that work similarly to a glockenspiel or lithophone, i.e. by striking various glass tubes. An example can be heard in a work entitled ""Crystal Bones"" composed and played on Prophet's microtonally tuned glass instruments. Verrophone A verrophone (""glass-euphonium"") is a musical instrument, invented in 1983 by Sascha Reckert, which, ""uses tuned glass tubes,"" open at one end and arranged in various sizes (usually in a chromatic scale, arranged from large to small, like the pipes of a pipe organ). The sound is made by rubbing one end of one or more of"
"darker, heavier sound, that extends down into the subsonic range. The technique for playing the hydraulophone is similar to that used for playing the armonica. Glass harmonica The glass harmonica, also known as the glass armonica, glass harmonium, bowl organ, hydrocrystalophone, or simply the armonica or harmonica (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). The name ""glass harmonica"" (also ""glass armonica"", ""glassharmonica""; ""harmonica"
"Crystallophone A crystallophone is a musical instrument that produces sound from glass. One of the best known crystallophones is the glass harmonica, a set of rotating glass bowls which produce eerie, clear tones when rubbed with a wet finger. Musical glasses, the glass harp, where documented in Persia in the 14th century. The ""ethereal"" quality of instruments such as the glass harmonica exemplified the ""Empfindsamkeit"" and for a while, ""the instrument was extraordinarily popular...[but] About 1830 the instrument fell into oblivion."" The glasschord (or glasscord) resembles the celesta but uses keyboard-driven hammers to strike glass bars instead of metal bars."
"popular in the 18th century. Pockrich's contemporary, Ford, published ""Instructions for the Playing of the Musical Glasses"" while Bartl published a German version. In 1929 Bruno Hoffmann invented a glass harp consisting, ""of 46 individually tuned glasses fixed on a resonant table."" On March 9, 1938, Bruno Hoffmann performed on the glass harp at the London Museum in a program including Mozart's Adagio (K. 356) and Quintet for harmonica, flute, viola, oboe, and cello (K. 617), accompanied by Geoffrey Gilbert, Leon Goossens, Frederick Riddle, and James Whitehead. It was an ""exquisite performance, in which the flute and viola in their"
"is known as the first virtuoso of the musical glasses. Pockrich called his instrument the ""angelic organ"" and it was played with sticks, rather than by rubbing the glasses with a moistened finger. It was reported in 1760 that, ""Pockrich played Handel's ""Water Music"" on the glasses."" His successful concert career was brought to a premature end by a fire in which both the inventor and instrument perished in 1759. The composer Christoph Willibald Gluck played the musical glasses. He performed in London in 1746, and Copenhagen. His instrument consisted of 26 goblets, ""filled with spring water."" The instrument was"
"Glass marimba The glass marimba is a type of idiophone also known as a vitrephone or crystallophone. Marimba translates to ""a xylophone-like instrument"" from an African language, probably Bantu. The glass keys are made of either hard glass (plate glass) or soft glass (stained glass). The keys are resonated with either a single open top box or individual resonators for each key. Mallets used to play the marimba can be constructed using a compressed silicone ball (bouncy ball) attached to one end of a wooden or synthetic dowell. These mallets bring out the purest sound from glass marimba. Other types"
"at the understanding of electron orbitals. Since at least 1738, a musical instrument called a ""Glasspiel"" or ""verrillon"", created by filling beer glasses with varying amounts of water, was popular in Europe. The beer glasses were struck by wooden mallets shaped like spoons to produce ""church and other solemn music"". Benjamin Franklin was sufficiently impressed by a verrillon performance on a visit to London in 1757 that he created his own instrument, the glass armonica, in 1762. Franklin's armonica inspired several other instruments, including two created by Chladni. In 1791, Chladni invented the musical instrument called the ""euphon"" (not to"
"the rim of a wine goblet to produce tones is documented back to Renaissance times; Galileo considered the phenomenon (in his ""Two New Sciences""), as did Athanasius Kircher. The Irish musician Richard Pockrich is typically credited as the first to play an instrument composed of glass vessels (glass harp) by rubbing his fingers around the rims. Beginning in the 1740s, he performed in London on a set of upright goblets filled with varying amounts of water. His career was cut short by a fire in his room, which killed him and destroyed his apparatus. Edward Delaval, a friend of Benjamin"
"wires resembling cat whiskers are placed under the instrument, supposedly to increase the sound power of high-pitched frequencies. Dennis James recorded an album of all glass music, ""Cristal: Glass Music Through the Ages"" co-produced by Linda Ronstadt and Grammy Award-winning producer John Boylan. James plays the glass harmonica, the Cristal di Baschet, and the Seraphim on the CD in original historical compositions and new arrangements for glass by Mozart, Scarlatti, Schnaubelt, and Fauré and collaborates on the recording with the Emerson String Quartet, operatic soprano Ruth Ann Swenson, and Ronstadt. James played glass instruments on Marco Beltrami's film scores for"
"Champagne glass A Champagne glass is a form of stemware designed specifically to enhance the drinking of champagne. The two most common forms are the flute and coupe. In each the stem allows the drinker to hold the glass without affecting the temperature of the drink, making them readily adaptable to consuming other sparkling wines and certain beers. The champagne flute (French:"" "") is a stem glass with either a tall tapered conical shape or elongated slender bowl, generally holding about of liquid. The champagne flute was developed along with other wine stemware in the early 1700s as the preferred"
"Verrophone A verrophone (""glass-euphonium"") is a musical instrument, invented in 1983 by Sascha Reckert, which, ""uses tuned glass tubes,"" open at one end and arranged in various sizes (usually in a chromatic scale, arranged from large to small, like the pipes of a pipe organ). The sound is made by rubbing one end of one or more of the glass tubes, or also by striking them or rubbing them with a special mallet. The tubes are close together so that chords can be played by rubbing more than one at the same time. The instrument carries more acoustical volume than"
"tone apart, taking advantage of the saws ability to play in both tunings. Other composers for chamber music with musical saw are Jonathan Rutherford (""An Intake of Breath""), Dana Wilson (""Whispers from Another Time""), Heinrich Gattermeyer (""Elegie für Singende Säge, Cembalo (oder Klavier)"", Vito Zuraj (""Musica di camera"" (2001)) and Britta-Maria Bernhard (""Tranquillo"") Musical saw A musical saw, also called a singing saw, is a hand saw used as a musical instrument. Capable of continuous glissando (portamento), the sound creates an ethereal tone, very similar to the theremin. The musical saw is classified as a plaque friction idiophone with direct"
"glass harmonica"" at that concert, performing alongside Emanuel Ax and Philipp Marguerre. Earlier that evening, the ""splendid soloists"" performed Mozart's Adagio & Rondo with two glass harmonicas and ensemble at David Geffen Hall for second evening in a row, an event critic Meche Kroop described as an ""extraordinary state of shock, a pleasant shock."" Kern performs on piano, electric piano, synthesizers, and electronics. He plays several glass instruments, primarily built in the workshop of Sascha Reckert. His preferred glass instrument is the verrophone, most recently used in his appearances with Opera Philadelphia, Shanghai Symphony, and the Metropolitan Opera. Friedrich Heinrich"
"Ocarina The ocarina is an ancient wind musical instrument—a type of vessel flute. Variations exist, but a typical ocarina is an enclosed space with four to twelve finger holes and a mouthpiece that projects from the body. It is traditionally made from clay or ceramic, but other materials are also used—such as plastic, wood, glass, metal, or bone. An example of an ocarina made of an animal horn is the medieval German gemshorn. The ocarina belongs to a very old family of instruments, believed to date back over 12,000 years. Ocarina-type instruments have been of particular importance in Chinese and"
"outer walls are separated by a small gap filled with air, a poor thermal conductor. Champagne glass A Champagne glass is a form of stemware designed specifically to enhance the drinking of champagne. The two most common forms are the flute and coupe. In each the stem allows the drinker to hold the glass without affecting the temperature of the drink, making them readily adaptable to consuming other sparkling wines and certain beers. The champagne flute (French:"" "") is a stem glass with either a tall tapered conical shape or elongated slender bowl, generally holding about of liquid. The champagne"
"The cittern or cithren (Fr. cistre, It. cetra, Ger. zitter, zither, Sp. cistro, cedra, cítola)[1] is a stringed instrument dating from the Renaissance. Modern scholars debate its exact history, but it is generally accepted that it is descended from the Medieval citole (or cytole). It looks much like the modern-day flat-back mandolin and the modern Irish bouzouki. Its flat-back design was simpler and cheaper to construct than the lute. It was also easier to play, smaller, less delicate and more portable. Played by all classes, the cittern was a premier instrument of casual music-making much as is the guitar today."
"""The Minus Man"" (1999) and ""The Faculty"" (1998). ""I first became aware of glass instruments at about the age of 6 while visiting the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. I can still recall being mesmerized by the appearance of the original Benjamin Franklin armonica then on display in its own showcase in the entry rotunda of the city's famed science museum."" James Horner used a glass harmonica and pan flute for Spock's theme in the 1982 film """". Another instrument that is also played with wet fingers is the hydraulophone. The hydraulophone sounds similar to a glass armonica but has a"
"The glass marimba is similar to the marimba, but has bars of glass instead of wood. The bars, which the performer strikes with padded sticks, are perched on a glass box to provide the necessary resonance. A rare Thai instrument called ""ranat kaeo"" (ระนาดแก้ว; literally ""glass xylophone"") has been used by the Thai music ensemble Fong Naam; it appears on their 1992 CD ""The Sleeping Angel: Thai Classical Music"". In Lydia Syson's biography, ""Doctor of Love: James Graham and his Celestial Bed"" (), sexologist James Graham uses the glass harmonica for musical therapy purposes. Benjamin Franklin was inspired to create"
"concert instrument is 5 octaves. The Cristal is related to the glass harmonica. The Cristal Baschet was invented in 1952 by the French instrument makers and artists Bernard and Francois Baschet. They specialized in creating sculptures that could be played to produce music. They invented the inflatable guitar, an aluminium piano and an ""educational instrumentarium"" for the purpose of giving young people exposure to musical concepts. The Cristal Baschet was developed around the same time as ""musique concrète"" (Avant-Garde musical style introduced by Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry), Electro-Acoustic music and early Moog synthesizers. The Cristal Baschet produces music similar"
"Brass instrument A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips. Brass instruments are also called ""labrosones"", literally meaning ""lip-vibrated instruments"". There are several factors involved in producing different pitches on a brass instrument. Slides, valves, crooks (though they are rarely used today), or keys are used to change vibratory length of tubing, thus changing the available harmonic series, while the player's embouchure, lip tension and air flow serve to select the specific harmonic produced from the available series. The view"
"Musical saw A musical saw, also called a singing saw, is a hand saw used as a musical instrument. Capable of continuous glissando (portamento), the sound creates an ethereal tone, very similar to the theremin. The musical saw is classified as a plaque friction idiophone with direct friction (132.22) under the Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification. The saw is generally played seated with the handle squeezed between the legs, and the far end held with one hand. Some sawists play standing, either with the handle between the knees and the blade sticking out in front of them. The saw"
"Glase"", and ""A Glass"". ""Glas"" is also a key term found in the Irish wire-harp tradition, as noted down by Edward Bunting from harpers such as Denis O'Hampsey who was one of the last musicians still playing the traditional Gaelic repertoire in the late 18th century. Bunting uses ""glass"" as a variant of ""gléis"" in relation to tuning. He also lists the term ""glas"" as a specific fingering technique, which he translates as ""a joining"", a simile for lock. He describes this as ""double notes, chords etc"" for the left treble hand and right bass hand. William McMurchy (c. 1700-c."
"et pédagogie"", it changed its name in 2012). The association has the support of the Baschet family and has an exclusive licence for creating some of the Baschet reproductible works. Instruments The Cristal baschet is a type of musical instrument designed by the Baschet brothers in the 1950s, the Cristal Baschet is played with wet fingers on glass rods. Its continuous, enchanting sounds have inspired many artists and composers. The current Cristal Baschet models produce a variety of sounds and can also be used in percussion. They can be fitted with numerous resonators including ""moustaches"" and different types of diffusers:"
"Tuned bottles Tuned Bottles are musical instruments in the percussion family; they are found objects which are subsequently filled with water to create different pitches. The instruments has the range of at least one octave, as it is possible to perform complex melodies with it (Michel Lauzière has performed Symphony No. 40). The instrument also has been seen in Eurovision Song Contest 2008, Croatian entry ""Romanca"" by Kraljevi ulice. In this performance bottles are seen hanging on threads in front of the player; this may improve the sound or add convenience. The range depends on the bottles used but is"
"instrument on display, which is occasionally used for public performances and recordings. Composers including J. G. Naumann, Padre Martini, Johann Adolph Hasse, Baldassare Galuppi, and Niccolò Jommelli, and more than 100 others composed works for the glass harmonica; some pieces survive in the repertoire through transcriptions for more conventional instruments. European monarchs indulged in playing it, and even Marie Antoinette took lessons as a child from Franz Anton Mesmer. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote his 1791 K. 617 and K.356 (K.617a) for the glass harmonica. Ludwig van Beethoven used the instrument in an 1814 melodrama ""Leonore Prohaska"". Gaetano Donizetti used the"
"it popular among children and the youth. Ocarina The ocarina is an ancient wind musical instrument—a type of vessel flute. Variations exist, but a typical ocarina is an enclosed space with four to twelve finger holes and a mouthpiece that projects from the body. It is traditionally made from clay or ceramic, but other materials are also used—such as plastic, wood, glass, metal, or bone. An example of an ocarina made of an animal horn is the medieval German gemshorn. The ocarina belongs to a very old family of instruments, believed to date back over 12,000 years. Ocarina-type instruments have"
"Clarinet The clarinet is a musical-instrument family belonging to the group known as the woodwind instruments. It has a single-reed mouthpiece, a straight cylindrical tube with an almost cylindrical bore, and a flared bell. A person who plays a clarinet is called a ""clarinetist"" (sometimes spelled ""clarinettist""). While the similarity in sound between the earliest clarinets and the trumpet may hold a clue to its name, other factors may have been involved. During the Late Baroque era, composers such as Bach and Handel were making new demands on the skills of their trumpeters, who were often required to play difficult"