It was the first and only time that Dennis James smacked a celebrity. During a 1999 taping of “Live with Regis and Kathie Lee,” Regis Philbin excitedly got up, strode over to James and reached for his ...

The word “armonica” has two meanings, both relating to music. An armonica is a glass harmonica (which, interestingly, was invented by Benjamin Franklin) and it is also the Italian word for “harmony.” ...

CORRALES, N.M. — A glass instrument that produces the hypnotic music of wet crystal is sounding a clarion call for debate over the lead poisoning of Beethoven. The glass armonica, invented by Benjamin ...

Franklin’s musical invention, the armonica, became a sensation in Europe. Franklin developed a musical instrument that he called the armonica (after the Italian word for harmony). To play the armonica ...

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If you have ever entertained dinner guests by running a wet fingertip around the edge of a crystal goblet to create a musical tone, you have experienced the pure sound that inspired one of Benjamin ...

Who’s heard of an armonica? No, not the blues harp—the armonica, sans “h.” It’s an instrument based on the water-filled-wine-glass idea, only more efficient. The brain behind the setup was none other ...

I bet you’ve rubbed your finger around the edge of a wine goblet and made a musical sound. If you haven’t, be sure to try it this New Year’s Eve before you make your toast to 2010. The tone you’ll ...

Listening to the glass armonica is “so beautiful, you could cry,” Mayling Garcia says. Garcia is one of about a dozen people in the world who regularly perform on the instrument, a musical invention ...

If you stroke the edge of a drinking glass with the fingertips you will hear a faint musical note. Concerts on sets of wine glasses, played in this way, and filled with water to tune them to different ...