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 ...

Dean Shostak is one of last true masters capable of playing the glass armonica – an enchanting instrument lost to time. First devised in 1761 by Benjamin Franklin, the art of "playing glass" began to ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was the first and only time that Dennis James smacked a celebrity. During a 1999 taping of “Live with Regis and Kathie Lee,” Regis Philbin excitedly got up, strode over to James and reached for his ...

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 ...

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The Fringe ...

Norwegian percussionist Terje Isungset and trumpeter Arve Henriksen seem to have enjoyed careers predicated on the continuous, never-ending search for new sounds. Isungset has incorporated, into his ...

Where: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (also Vancouver’s Contemporary Art Gallery on Saturday, 7 p.m.) When: Tonight 7 p.m., Friday 1 p.m. Admission: $25 ($20 for AGGV members) Back in 1970, American ...

IN reply to a request for information upon the subject of imports of optical glass and scientific instruments from Germany and elsewhere, the Commercial Intelligence Branch of the Board of Trade has ...