Close your eyes and imagine the sound of water finding its voice, something airy and resonant, hovering just at the edge of real. That’s the glass harmonica for you, an instrument so delicate that it ...

Friedrich Heinrich Kern plays a version of the glass harmonica called the verrophone for Opera Philadelphia's production of "Written on Skin." (Emma Lee/WHYY) On Friday, Opera Philadelphia will ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Benjamin Franklin invented the glass harmonica, inspired by the parlor trick of playing music on water-filled glasses. The instrument gained ...

The Glass Harmonica was invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1761 and has been making creepy music ever since. Take a listen! Have you ever rubbed your wet finger around a wine glass to hear the resonant ...

Ever wondered what 37 different-sized wine glasses would sound like if they were played? Well, so did science boffin Benjamin Franklin in the mid-1700s What is it? The glass harmonica, or "armonica", ...

SOLVING a crossword puzzle one day some 30 years ago, a young Austrian violinist couple named Christa and Gerald Schönfeldinger came across a reference to an instrument they had never heard of, ...

For the first time on Thursday, Covent Garden opera-goers will hear a performance involving one the most fragile instruments ever invented. The glass harmonica, played by only a handful of people in ...

Playing music on glass dates back a couple centuries. No lesser souls than Benjamin Franklin and Marie Antoinette played on glass. Tomorrow at Kulturzentrum, 50 Danzigerstrasse in Prenzlauer Berg, ...