The Glass Harmonica

For the Independence's Day I have to postpone to later, cos I have to upload some videos, it take me long time to do it, so today I wanna share with you about the glass harmonica that I saw the other day!!

I am copying down the words for you, cos I scared it might be hard for you to read...

The glass harmonica was invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1761. He saw a man in Haymarket Square in London playing on 50 tuned wine glasses and got the idea from that. Playing on musical glasses was all the rage of high society in London in the late 1700's and the glass harmonica then became popular throughout Europe for about 40 years, until it was banned by German police.

It was thought to cause insanity, nervous disorders, convulsions in dogs and cats, marital dispute and wake people from the dead. (I feel fine). Mozart was among the classical composers of the day to write for it.

I discovered the instrument when, in 1983, I saw a man playing 70 tuned wine glasses on the street in Harvard Square. I immediately fell in love with the sound of glass. I discovered the builder of my instrument, Gerhard Finkenbeiner, about a month later. He was a master scientific glassblower and the only man in the world at that time building glass harmonicas.


She said is Chinese Song, I can't recall what song is that...


Kid's song, "twinkle twinkle little start"