glass harmonica

English

Spinning glass disks (bowls) on a common shaft are arranged with the lower notes (larger disks) to the left and higher notes (smaller disks) to the right.

Noun

glass harmonica (plural glass harmonicas)

1. (music) A musical instrument composed of a series of spinning glass bowls, played with the fingers, invented by Benjamin Franklin.
2. (loosely) The glass harp.

Synonyms

• bowl organ
• armonica
• glass armonica
• hydrocrystalophone
• hydrodaktulopsychicharmonica
• musical glasses

Derived terms

• glass harmonicist

Translations

a musical instrument

• Bulgarian: гласхармоника f (glasharmonika)
• Danish: glasharmonika
• Dutch: glasharmonica (nl) f
• French: harmonica de verre (fr) m
• German: Glasharmonika (de) f
• Hungarian: üvegharmonika (hu)
• Italian: armonica a bicchieri f, glassarmonica f
• Japanese: アルモニカ (arumonika)
• Norwegian: glassharmonika
• Polish: harmonika szklana f
• Portuguese: harmónica de vidro f (Portugal), harmônica de vidro f (Brazil)
• Russian: стекля́нная гармо́ника f (stekljánnaja garmónika)
• Spanish: armónica de cristal f
• Swedish: glasharmonika c