Sounds So Ethereal, They’re Therapeutic

Instrument creation isn’t just for those crazies out there. Take the scientist and politician Ben Franklin; a man that even the most conservative American could appreciate. Franklin apparently created an instrument called the glass armonica, a piano-like tool designed to replicate the echo of wine glass rims. It has a series of glass bowls laid out in scale from large to small, sanded to the perfect pitch. The glasses are wrapped around a spinning wheel so the player doesn’t have to roll around the rim, freeing them to hit multiple notes at once.