Glasschord
Encyclopedia
The glasschord is a crystallophone
that resembles the celesta
but uses keyboard
-driven hammers to strike glass bars instead of metal bars.
Crystallophone
A crystallophone is a musical instrument that produces sound from glass.One of the best known crystallophones is the glass harmonica, a set of rotating glass bowls which produce eerie, clear tones when rubbed with a wet finger....
that resembles the celesta
Celesta
The celesta or celeste is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard. Its appearance is similar to that of an upright piano or of a large wooden music box . The keys are connected to hammers which strike a graduated set of metal plates suspended over wooden resonators...
but uses keyboard
Musical keyboard
A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the...
-driven hammers to strike glass bars instead of metal bars.
External links
- Glass Music
- Glassichord, Chappell & Co., London, ca. 1815 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Glasschord Magazine