A glass armonica, originally invented by Benjamin Franklin and revived at a recent performance at the Park Avenue Armory (photo by the author for Hyperallergic) In 1761, Benjamin Franklin invented an ...

Starting tonight, a group of experimental musicians in B.C. will give a series of performances using instruments and objects made solely from glass. The project sees three musicians from Victoria's ...

SOLVING a crossword puzzle one day some 30 years ago, a young Austrian violinist couple named Christa and Gerald Schönfeldinger came across a reference to an instrument they had never heard of, ...

TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Ancient Japanese musical instruments have taken on a new shine after one group decided to make theirs out of glass, instead of traditional wood. Drums and flutes play a major ...

If you have ever entertained dinner guests by running a wet fingertip around the edge of a crystal goblet to create a musical tone, you have experienced the pure sound that inspired one of Benjamin ...

Playing his violin at inns and taverns, Dean Shostak is a common sight in Colonial Williamsburg. However, Shostak specializes in an instrument that separates him from other musicians: the glass ...

Friedrich Heinrich Kern plays a version of the glass harmonica called the verrophone for Opera Philadelphia's production of "Written on Skin." (Emma Lee/WHYY) On Friday, Opera Philadelphia will ...

AS A CHILD, Jamey Turner took piano lessons. He also studied violin. But over dinner with his family, he discovered a different instrument – the wine glass. “When I heard my dad playing a stemmed ...

Filling drinking glasses with varying amounts of water and rubbing the rims to coax out musical tones is something anyone can do for fun in the kitchen. The members of Crystal Harmony are among the ...