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CaliforniaPeggy

(156,987 posts) Mon Dec 19, 2011, 09:38 PM Dec 2011

The Sugar Plum Fairy........via glass...Amazing!

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The Sugar Plum Fairy........via glass...Amazing! (Original Post) CaliforniaPeggy Dec 2011 OP

Very nice my dear Peggy One Voice Dec 2011 #1

My dear One Voice... CaliforniaPeggy Dec 2011 #3

My dear CaliforniaPeggy! MiddleFingerMom Dec 2011 #2

My dear MiddleFingerMom! CaliforniaPeggy Dec 2011 #4

Benjamin Franklin invented what he called the Glass Armonica... based on the goblet instrument. MiddleFingerMom Dec 2011 #5

Thank you for this fascinating tidbit! CaliforniaPeggy Dec 2011 #6

Thanks for posting this. Lionel Mandrake Dec 2011 #7

You're welcome, my dear Lionel Mandrake... CaliforniaPeggy Dec 2011 #8

One Voice

(376 posts)

1. Very nice my dear Peggy

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Original post)

Mon Dec 19, 2011, 10:01 PM

Dec 2011

Thank you for posting it.
A beautiful sound.

CaliforniaPeggy

(156,987 posts)

3. My dear One Voice...

Reply to One Voice (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 19, 2011, 10:17 PM

Dec 2011

I was stunned at the sound!

And I'm glad you enjoyed it...

You're most welcome!

MiddleFingerMom

(25,163 posts)

2. My dear CaliforniaPeggy!

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Original post)

Mon Dec 19, 2011, 10:10 PM

Dec 2011

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WOW!!!
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I've seen/listened to several videos of people playing a crystal
organ and I even saw a retired surgeon in Philadelphia who was
a street performer play one (like Taiko drumming, the in-person
performance was potentiated by the fact that the vibrations are
actually penetratingly VISCERAL).
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I have never seen a performer as good as she -- she seemed to
be playing rapid staccato notes with all 10 fingers.
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Thanks. Beautiful!!!
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CaliforniaPeggy

(156,987 posts)

4. My dear MiddleFingerMom!

Reply to MiddleFingerMom (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 19, 2011, 10:19 PM

Dec 2011

It was amazing!

I've never really heard anything like this before...esp. live.

Lucky you!

You're so very welcome!

MiddleFingerMom

(25,163 posts)

5. Benjamin Franklin invented what he called the Glass Armonica... based on the goblet instrument.

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Reply #4)

Mon Dec 19, 2011, 10:36 PM

Dec 2011

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I think it was 37 glass/crystal bowls set sideways on a foot-pedal-operated
spindle. It allowed 10 different notes to be played simultaneously -- which
was impossible on the goblet set-up.
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I believe it's been discredited, but there was long a belief that accomplished
musicians of either instrument had a HIGH percentage of late-developing
psychosis -- the theory was that it had something to do with the neural
feedback from the vibrations being produced.
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CaliforniaPeggy

(156,987 posts)

6. Thank you for this fascinating tidbit!

Reply to MiddleFingerMom (Reply #5)

Mon Dec 19, 2011, 10:55 PM

Dec 2011

I'd never heard of this instrument...

Leave it to Ben Franklin to invent such an ingenious thing!

And I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear that this discredited theory had at least some truth to it...

Lionel Mandrake

(4,214 posts)

7. Thanks for posting this.

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Original post)

Tue Dec 20, 2011, 12:07 AM

Dec 2011

The performance is very musical.

CaliforniaPeggy

(156,987 posts)

8. You're welcome, my dear Lionel Mandrake...

Reply to Lionel Mandrake (Reply #7)

Tue Dec 20, 2011, 01:27 AM

Dec 2011

I was surprised at just how musical it is.

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