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Started October 25th, 2014 · 8 replies · Latest reply by Seidhepriest 9 years, 11 months ago
How do you make one? Apparently there is such a thing as a bowed glass instrument. Does anyone know what it's like and what it's all about?
MIDI programme 92, in case you're wondering.
DIY with glasses properly filled, or this
http://coolmusicinstrument.com/glass-harmonica-invented-benjamin-franklin-cursed-heavenly-sounding-instrument
So it's a "glass harp" then. Basically just a whole battery of cups filled with water (or not) rubbed with wet fingers, right?
Ri-i-ight...
http://finkenbeiner.com/GLASSHARMONICA.htm -
"Glass Harmonica prices start at $7,880.00"
The silly thing is way more expensive than most hardware synths...
Re copyc4t’s comment, this piqued my interest: http://vimeo.com/15955954
One way of making a crappy version, perhaps. From 1:07 onwards they start to sound a bit less ear-bleedingly bad. I just hope those old superstitions about crystallophonic instruments causing psychotic depression are untrue...
jamesabdulrahman wrote:
... I just hope those old superstitions about crystallophonic instruments causing psychotic depression are untrue...
Maybe some truth in that superstition : I heard that playing the glass armonica can cause the disease vibration white finger, which can be agony , ( being in agony causes depression ).
Well, that'd be because of lead in 18th-century glass?
It can sound melancholic for certain, e. g.
Glass thickness/quality might have something to do with sound causing earbleed... Also pitch (430 Hz would be a lot nicer, Thomas Bloch has a harmonica tuned to that).