Morse, Frances Clary · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 298
ages untilousted by themelodeon. Illustration234 shows aset of musicalglasses called aharmonica.! hefine ladies in The Vicar ofWakefieldwould talk ofnothing butpictures,taste,Shakespeare,and the musi-cal glasses.This was in1761, and themusical glasseswere fashionable before that, for Gliick in 1746… … Illus. 234. — Harmonica, or Musical Glasses,about 1820. 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…
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