RE: ben franklins glass celestia amplified and looped

["William Walker" <billwalker@baymoon.com>]

He also considered it his favorite invention, high praise considering
everything else he invented.
Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Bell [mailto:cwwbell@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 7:41 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: ben franklins glass celestia amplified and looped


Since I'm from Philadelphia, I'll have to chime in and let everyone
know that Franklin referred to it his invention as a glass armonica,
not a celestia. Being that it's Ben's tri-centenial and all we're
sensitive about such matters. Amazing instrument, wish I could get my
hands on one without dropping any cash.

On 3/29/06, joe rut <joerut@lycos.com> wrote:
> What an amazing instrument!  I saw the singer/songwriter Michael Penn 
>play
in Ventura years ago.  The main thing I remember about the show (other
> than that the drummer was DJ Bonebreak from X - one of my fav bands) was
that the pedal steel player also played a celestia, also called (i think) a
> harmonium?  He did some amazing stuff on it, running it through various
processing gear.  Would love to hear one looped!
>
> Joe Rut
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "daniel stevenson" <stillllscary@yahoo.com>
> > To: loopers-delight@loopers-delight.com
> > Subject: ben franklins glass celestia amplified and looped
> > Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 06:24:58 -0800 (PST)
> >
> >
> > ive been playing one in my sleep lately & when i wake up the tips
> > of my fingers are pruned up.im making loops but without
> > hardware...it seems to be a psych~tele~phonic looping interface.i
> > cant wait to get to back to sleep...
> >
> >
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