Glasschord

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Not to be confused with Glass harmonica or Glass harp.
Glasschord
1786 Glasschord from the Hans Adler Collection
Other namesGlasscord, Glassichord, Glace-chord
Classification Idiophone
Inventor(s)M. Beyer
Developed1785
Related instruments
Glass harmonica
Builders
Chappell & Co.

The glasschord (

hammers to strike glass tubes laid on a cloth strip, with no dampeners. The instrument has a range of three octaves, in various models from c' to c'', f' to f'', and g' to g''.[5] The instrument was largely inspired by the glass harmonica created by Benjamin Franklin,[6] and was given the name glasschord by him.[7] On 6 July 1785, Thomas Jefferson that Franklin carried a version of the instrument with him, describing it as a sticcado.[8]

Beyer originally presented the instrument on 19 January 1785, in a presentation at the French Academy of Sciences, while the instrument still was nameless,[9] with the instrument being publicised in the Journal de Paris multiple times through the same year.[10]

Many glasschords were built by Chappell & Co., until around 1815.[11][12]

The instrument was used in some scores, most notable by Hector Berlioz, who wrote the first version of La Tempête, and Camille Saint-Saëns who used the instrument in L'aquarium.[13]

References

  1. OCLC 36541348
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  2. doi:10.3406/helec.1985.955
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  3. OCLC 1333537233.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
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  4. ^ Beyer, M. (1806). Notice sur le glace-chord de mon invention, et sur quelques autre instruments en verre, ainsi que sur divers objets de mécanique, que j'ai imaginé ou perfectionnés (in French). Paris. pp. 1–12.
  5. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0
    . Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  6. ^ "Heart Blood of the World: The Hydrocrystalophone | Pennsylvania Center for the Book". pabook.libraries.psu.edu. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  7. ^ "2016 Florida International Toy Piano Festival Booklet" (PDF). The New Music Conflagration. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  8. ^ "Glasschord". music.yale.edu. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  9. ISBN 978-1-4008-5354-0
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  10. ^ "Glacechord". collectionsdumusee.philharmoniedeparis.fr (in French). Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  11. ^ "Chapell & Co. | Glassichord | British | The Metropolitan Museum of Art". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2022-11-02.
  12. ^ "Edinburgh collection checklist". www.bate.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  13. ^ Chapuis, Jean-Claude. "Ces si délicats instruments de verre". Pourlascience.fr (in French). Retrieved 2022-11-10.
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