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 ...

Franklin’s musical invention, the armonica, became a sensation in Europe. Franklin developed a musical instrument that he called the armonica (after the Italian word for harmony). To play the armonica ...

CORRALES, N.M. — A glass instrument that produces the hypnotic music of wet crystal is sounding a clarion call for debate over the lead poisoning of Beethoven. The glass armonica, invented by Benjamin ...

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 ...

Who’s heard of an armonica? No, not the blues harp—the armonica, sans “h.” It’s an instrument based on the water-filled-wine-glass idea, only more efficient. The brain behind the setup was none other ...

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 ...

The angelick organ : a history of the musical glasses -- Benjamin Franklin and music -- Benjamin Franklin and the invention of the armonica -- A brief history of glass -- An instrument so grand and ...

If you stroke the edge of a drinking glass with the fingertips you will hear a faint musical note. Concerts on sets of wine glasses, played in this way, and filled with water to tune them to different ...

Listening to the glass armonica is “so beautiful, you could cry,” Mayling Garcia says. Garcia is one of about a dozen people in the world who regularly perform on the instrument, a musical invention ...

Benjamin Franklin is widely remembered for his role in politics, science, and innovation. However, one of his lesser-known inventions– a musical instrument– rarely makes it to the spotlight. Known as ...

Dean Shostak was just another musician before he discovered the magic of glass. He played some piano, was proficient on the violin, and even crossed over from classical to fiddling. “I was not your ...

If you stroke the edge of a drinking glass with the fingertips you will hear a faint musical note. Concerts on sets of wine glasses, played in this way, and filled with water to tune them to different ...