Re: ben franklins glass celestia amplified and looped

["loop.pool" <looppool@cruzio.com>]

Thanks for this wonderful post and that great website on the history of 
the 
Glass Harmonica
http://www.glasharfe.de/glasharfe/texte/history.htm

Because of it,I have been able to inquire about the manufacturer of a 
musical instrument
that I have invented and always wanted to build  (what  I call a Liquid 
Glass Ghatam)
It turns out that there is a link to the custom glass blowers who 
manufacturer the glass armonica
So I just wrote them a letter in the middle of the night to see if they'd 
be 
intersted in building one
and enquiring about what it would cost.

I myself have had the Mozart pieces on vinyl for about 20 years and even 
got 
my dad to
purchase me 6 high quality large crystal glass goblets for the expressed 
purpose of
creating a pentatonic glass  harmonica.

There has also been an amazing musician based out of New Orleans who 
playes 
tuned Wine Glasses
on the street.  I've lost touch with him, but he would do everything from 
Stairway to Heaven to classical
pieces on his 'insturment'.  He was amazing and was very adept at playing 
rapidly with harmony.

Actually having the Ben Franklin invention would be so much easier to 
play. 
I'd love to own one.

I love the sound of wine glasses.   It is one of the most beautiful 
instruments in the world for my money.
It is so melancholy and the sounds last so long that you get a lot of 
beautiful suspended harmonies out of playing the
most simple of tunes.

Did anyone ever hear the amazing musical score to the movie,   'Cutters 
Way' 
from the 1970's?

There is an amazing, beautiful and melancholy scene that opens up the 
movie 
picturing traditional Mexican Dancers, dancing
in slow motion during the Rose Parade to an exquisite score featuring 
glass 
harmonica by Van Dyke Parks.
The scene begins in black and white and langorously fades into full color 
by 
the end of the credits...............simply one of the most
sublime beginnings to a motion picture in history IMHO.

It's the first time I ever heard the instrument and it just floored me 
when 
I heard it.

 It's a wonderful  and often overlooked movie about the emotional fallout 
from the Vietnamese war starring and incredible performance by a very young
Jeff Bridges (one of Hollywood's most underrated actors if you aske me).

Also, if you've ever heard a Bowed Psaltery, it sounds to me like a 
perfect 
marriage between a Glass Harmonica
and  a Violin.