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 ...

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 ...

Starting tonight, a group of experimental musicians in B.C. will give a series of performances using instruments and objects made solely from glass. The project sees three musicians from Victoria's ...

Playing his violin at inns and taverns, Dean Shostak is a common sight in Colonial Williamsburg. However, Shostak specializes in an instrument that separates him from other musicians: the glass ...

Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and ...

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, ...

TOLEDO —Twenty minutes before his performance with an orchestra in Naples, Italy, Dennis James learned that the concert would be televised throughout Europe. When intense camera lights were trained on ...

AS A CHILD, Jamey Turner took piano lessons. He also studied violin. But over dinner with his family, he discovered a different instrument – the wine glass. “When I heard my dad playing a stemmed ...