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Bakken Library and Museum: Glass Armonica - Photograph from the collection and information about the instrument made by Benjamin Franklin and used by German physician Franz Anton Mesmer in his practice.
William Wilde Zeitler for the Glass Armonica - Glass armonica performer, composer, and recording artist. Includes a history of the instrument, audio, video, news articles, bibliography, and links.
Dennis James Interview: Glass Armonica Project - The Cristal: Glass Music Through the Ages CD he made with Linda Ronstadt, glass music history, and techniques.
Benjamin Franklin and His Glass Armonica - Includes photographs, video, and playable interactive armonica.
Psyche Van Het Folk: Glass Instruments - Explanations, by Thomas Bloch, of the differences between the seraphim, glass harp, verillon, glass armonica, and glass harmonica.
Cecilia Gniewek Brauer - Profile of the armonica artist, the history of the instrument, information about her school programs, performances, and CD.
Yatri - Glass armonica player. Profile, audio samples, CD ordering, and instrument information.
G. Finkenbeiner Inc. - Glass harmonica maker. Includes history, audio samples, and links.
Thomas Block Glass Harmonica - A soloist who specializes in this rare instrument, manufactured by Gerhard Finkenbeiner.
Zeitler, William Wilde - Composer of music for the Glass Armonica. Includes information about the instrument, biography and audio clips.

Glass harmonica - The glass harmonica, also known as glass armonica, '"hydrocrystalophone" or simply armonica (derived from "armonia", the Italian word for harmony) is a type of musical instrument that uses a series of glass bowls or goblets graduated in size to produce musical tones by means of friction, making it both a crystallophone and a friction ...
Marianne Davies - Marianne Davies (various birth and death years reported) was the first person to publicly perform on the glass harmonica (also known as the armonica), an instrument consisting of variously sized and tuned glass bowls that rotate on a common shaft, played by touching the spinning glass with wet fingers.
Yatri - Yatri, Kathryn Taussig, is the world’s foremost Glass Armonica musician in the genre of New Age and healing music. Her CDs are distributed in 35 countries around the world and she has been featured on such nationally syndicated radio shows as Music From the Hearts of Space and Echoes.