Benjamin Franklin invented the glass armonica in 1761. Three years earlier he had seen Edmund Delaval play water-filled wine glasses. Franklin worked with glassblower Charles James in London to build his new instrument.
The name armonica comes from the Italian word for “harmony.”
The First Armonica Performance
The glass armonica had its world premiere in February 1762 in London. Marianne Davies gave a concert in which she not only played the glass armonica, but sang and played the German flute as well.
Because of the beauty of the armonica's sound, the instrument gained enough popularity in its day that both Mozart and Beethoven, as well as more than 100 composers, wrote music for the armonica.
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