Glass-ical Musick will be coming to Redding when armonica player Dennis James performs in Redding on Jan. 7. He will perform and educate audiences about his instrument, the glass armonica, which was ...

Playing his violin at inns and taverns, Dean Shostak is a common sight in Colonial Williamsburg. However, Shostak specializes in an instrument that separates him from other musicians: the glass ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two world-class musicians played several rare, historical musical instruments Tuesday night at the Carolina Music Museum in a concert called “Armonica Returns!” Those instruments ranged from pianos ...

Nearly 200 people came out to Congregation Emanu El’s synagogue in Redlands when Lois Musmann directed her Musica Viva ensemble for the Spinet music club’s Jan. 16 program. “Special Music for a ...

When looking at Dale Chihuly's 'Campiello del Remer, Ireland,' you might be surprised to see cut crystal. Chihuly is known for using vibrant and expressive colors in his works, showcasing the wondrous ...

Benjamin Franklin may have helped give birth to a new nation, but the glass armonica was the Founding Father's "most cherished creation," according to English professor Corey Mead. Best known as a ...

It was a love of drumming that drove a Pickerington High School Central graduate to pursue a college degree in music, but his mastery of a unique -- and a bit unwieldly -- glass instrument scored him ...

Have you ever been on a city street and seen a busker playing music on glasses? Each glass has a different amount of water and produces a different note when tapped. [Cyberlab] must have seen them and ...

In 1761, Ben Franklin invented an instrument, the glass armonica. Made of glass bowls stacked on their sides along a rotating spindle, the glass armonica was to be rubbed by wet fingers, thus ...