PomPom Pilates

By orangepress

Glass Harp

This is the harpist at the Vineyard Hotel where I dined with my friend Veronica on Sunday.
She played, we drank wine.
She played the harp, we played the glass harp.
A glass harp (also called musical glasses, singing glasses, angelic organ, verrilion or ghost fiddle) is an instrument made of upright wine glasses.
It is played by running moistened or chalked fingers around the rim of the glasses. Each glass is tuned to a different pitch, either by grinding each goblet to the specified pitch, in which case the tuning is permanent, or by filling the glass with water until the desired pitch is achieved.
The glass harp was created in 1741 by Irishman Richard Pockrich, who is known as the first virtuoso of the musical glasses.
Who would have thought.

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