Glass-ical Musick will be coming to Redding when armonica player Dennis James performs in Redding on Jan. 7. He will perform and educate audiences about his instrument, the glass armonica, which was ...

Have you ever sat around a dinner table or in a pub and rubbed your finger along the rim of a glass to make that eerie ...

Although the ethereal melody sounded as much New Age as 18th century, Benjamin Franklin would have applauded the soft music shimmering from Dean Shostak’s rare glass armonica in a Williamsburg concert ...

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 ...

American Founding Father and polymath Benjamin Franklin invented a variety of useful things: a new stove for heating, rudimentary swimming fins, a better urinary catheter, a glass musical instrument ...