0 a kind of small musical instrument played with the mouth. -- mundharmonika
Some inventors attempted to improve the glass harmonica directly by incorporating a keyboard to mediate between the performer and the glasses.
Fantasies about the harmonica inspired inventors to attempt, in very real ways, to create new and better instruments.
There was no question of silly imitations of unworthy subjects, since the harmonica could imitate the one thing that was worth imitating: the human voice.
Altogether, the most commonly learned instruments were piano (1,054), recorder (340), harmonica (321), violin (237) and flute (227).
The glass harmonica was not a perfect instrument.
Critics often doubted whether the glass harmonica was capable producing powerful music.
Sterki's study is an invaluable resource for the history of the harmonica and other glass instruments.
This strange clash, of course, belongs to the relationes non harmonica, a contrapuntal phenomenon much discussed and variously evaluated in the music-theoretical literature of the eighteenth century.
