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The Armonica in Portugal

Richard Twiss in his Travels through Portugal and Spain in 1772 and 1775 observes:

I also heard [at Lisbon] a Portuguese lady's performance on the musical glasses, which were empty, but her fingers wer occasionally dipped in water. 1


1 Twiss (1775), 10



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