Morse, Frances Clary · New York, the MacMillan Co. · leaf 301
icalglasses called aharmonica. Thefine ladies in The Vicar ofWakefieldwould talk ofnothing but^pictures,taste,Shakespeare,and the musi-cal glasses.This was in I 76 I and the Illus. 234. — Harmonica, or Musical Glasses.• 1 1 about 1820. musical glasses were fashionable before that, for Gliick in… … 276 Furniture of the Olden Time and in which the glasses were arranged upon a rodwhich turned with a crank, while below was a troughof water which moistened the glasses as they dippedinto it. In Watsons Annals is a description of a visit toFranklin in Paris. It says, He conducted meacross the room…
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