Sunday, September 17, 2006

Glass Armonica

Here's Ben's Glass Armonica, which is also inaccurately called a Glass Harmonica. See, the amazing Mr. Franklin invented this insturment 60 years before the harmonica! Ok, with that said, this insturment is based on wetting your finger and running arouud the rim of a wine glass to make a haunting noise. This is the same principal. In fact Mozart actually composed a piece for the Glass Armonica, you can hear it here.

This is what this weirdo insturment looks like:

Next is Ben's most important invention...

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9 Comments:

Blogger wolfboy said...

Hey Gabe! I'm new to blogland--but was directed to yours and boy, am glad I was. Your work is tight and definately matured...from already a great starting point; this new stuff blows my mind!

Andy S.

11:50 PM  
Blogger wolfboy said...

P.S. "matured" sounds condescending--"evolved" is better!

12:22 AM  
Blogger Lamar The Revenger said...

very dignified.

1:55 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Another excellent piece of artwork from Gabe! It looks like Ben is really into his music.

7:13 PM  
Blogger Alexei Martins said...

Awesome painting!!!!!
This painting make me relax...

7:52 AM  
Blogger Jo Bling said...

Lovely jubbly artwork, Gabe! Liking longtime

CJ

2:32 PM  
Blogger Marc Deckter said...

Wow, crazy instrument.....

10:24 AM  
Blogger Stephen Worth said...

Franklin had a million illegitimate children by dozens of girlfriends. He was a real party animal!

See ya
Steve

2:02 PM  
Blogger Jared Deal said...

i grew up 'bout a half hour outside of philly & ended up goin to college right in center city. mr. franklin is definitly a staple in that city.
so... growin' up in PA, does that make you an eagles fan???

5:40 PM  

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