{"id":6624,"date":"2022-05-28T12:13:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T19:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=6624"},"modified":"2022-05-28T12:13:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T19:13:38","slug":"glass-instruments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=6624","title":{"rendered":"Glass instruments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbFp5Ty1UN2l5OVAtbkdJU29ucHNjcnU5cUhqUXxBQ3Jtc0ttem9kOVVSLXB3TGNwZkpRNDVlR2lIOWV0Q3FydGpERWx4OGNENWk4S2VLTFVzTzVuT3psTjNrMzRTcFpsVVdZVmZYUVhaZ0N1bktEUVZNWXpLenpYNlozeXVDWFF6MjhaSEFYVUxFbEtXWVdsUFlNOA&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fdennis.james.395&amp;v=XXec9ggTha0\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbFp5Ty1UN2l5OVAtbkdJU29ucHNjcnU5cUhqUXxBQ3Jtc0ttem9kOVVSLXB3TGNwZkpRNDVlR2lIOWV0Q3FydGpERWx4OGNENWk4S2VLTFVzTzVuT3psTjNrMzRTcFpsVVdZVmZYUVhaZ0N1bktEUVZNWXpLenpYNlozeXVDWFF6MjhaSEFYVUxFbEtXWVdsUFlNOA&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fdennis.james.395&amp;v=XXec9ggTha0\" target=\"_blank\">Dennis James<\/a> shows us around 2 of the more unusual musical instruments &#8211; ones that require wetted hands that make their glass parts sing. The Cristal Baschet and Glass Armonica are fascinating historical glass instruments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glass_harmonica\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glass_harmonica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Glass Armonica<\/a> was invented by Benjamin Franklin and was purported to be dangerous to both players and listeners by driving them mad or even killing them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cVqqNigImtU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cristal_Baschet\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cristal_Baschet\" target=\"_blank\">Cristal Baschet<\/a> was developed by the French brothers Bernard and Frncois Baschet as a sculpture that could be played to produce music. They also invented an inflatable guitar and an aluminum piano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XXec9ggTha0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis James shows us around 2 of the more unusual musical instruments &#8211; ones that require wetted hands that make their glass parts sing. The Cristal Baschet and Glass Armonica are fascinating historical glass instruments. The Glass Armonica was invented by Benjamin Franklin and was purported to be dangerous to both players and listeners by driving them mad or even killing them. The Cristal Baschet was developed by the French brothers Bernard and Frncois Baschet as a sculpture that could&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=6624\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,9,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artdesign","category-cool","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-1IQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6625,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624\/revisions\/6625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}