SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE MIDDLE COLONIES NEW YORK DELAWARE NEW JERSEY PENNSYLVANIA
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Question
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piano
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glass armonica
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clarinet
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triangle
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1761 Benjamin Franklin invented the armonica (often referred to as the glass harmonica), an instrument designed to simplify the playing of the musical glasses.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ben Franklin completed his glass armonica in 1761. (Its name is derived from the Italian word for harmony.) He didn’t simply refine the idea of musical glasses, which were played much like children at the dinner table play them today, with notes being determined by the amount of water in the glass.
Detailed explanation-3: -To play the armonica, a musician powered a foot pedal to rotate 36 concentric glass bowls and produced notes by putting wet fingers to the spinning glass. In Austria, the glass armonica provided the music for a royal wedding. Mozart and Beethoven would compose chamber pieces for it.
Detailed explanation-4: -Because its sounding portion is made of glass, the glass harmonica is a type of crystallophone.