William Zeitler - The Music and Magic of the Glass Armonica

Links

Other Glass Armonica Players

(In alphabetical order)

Thomas Bloch (France) In French and English.

Cecilia Brauer (New York, NY)

Celia Canty (Hawaii). She calls it a 'glass harp' (she mainly plays the 'regular' harp) but from her picture you can see that the glass instrument she plays is a glass armonica.

Jean-Claude Chapuis (France)

Lynn Drye (Scottsdale, AZ)

Alexander Marguerre (London?)

Alastair Galbraith (New Zealand)

Mayling Garcia (Albuquerque, NM)

Dennis James (Tacoma, WA)

Korn (the rock group)

Alasdair Malloy (England)

Vera Meyer (Boston, MA)

Alisa Nakashian (Boston, MA)

Dean Shostak (Williamsburg, PA)

Christa and Gerald Schönfeldinger (Austria)

Carolinn Skyler (Philadelphia, PA)

Greg Temmer (Fort Collins, CO)

Yatri Crystal Music: new age music for the glass armonica (Lenox, MA)

Other Glass Musicians

Note: the Franklin arrangement of the glasses — nested inside of each other and rotating on a spindle, is called the "armonica". Franklin was the first to use that name, and applied it to his own ingenius arrangement of the glasses.

There are two types of goblet style instruments: the "musical glasses" — in which the wine glasses are tuned with water, and the "glass harp" — in which the glasses are tuned to the correct pitch by grinding instead of filling them with any water.

This is a reasonable and historical naming convention. Some of the players listed below choose to call their instrument something else. So, in the list of links below I use the naming convention above, but when you go to their website, you may see them name their instrument differently.

Peter Bennet, musical glasses (New Orleans, LA)

Bjork, musical glasses (Finland)

Ingeborg Emge, glass harp (Switzerland, in French)

Donal Hineley, musical glasses (Springfield, TN)

Brien Engel, glass harp (Decatur, GA)

Clemens Hofinger, glass harp (Germany)

The Glass Orchestra (Canada)
Glass Music International

Martin Hilmer (in German, Japanese and English)

Glasmusic-Ensemble Kassel (only in German)

Ann Stuart and Jonathan Stuart-Moore North Carolina (Musical Glasses)

Other Websites of Interest

dict.cc, an online German-English dictionary. The best I've found, in my opinion. A great feture is that when you look up a word, you can add it to your vocabulary list and drill yourself.

G. Finkenbeiner Inc. Made William Zeitler's glasses.

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin on-line The complete correspondence to/from Franklin. Searchable.

Other Websites by William Zeitler

www.allthescales.com A complete list of all possible musical scales.
www.faithfulbible.com William's translation of the complete New Testament from the original Greek into English.