Who’s heard of an armonica? No, not the blues harp—the armonica, sans “h.” It’s an instrument based on the water-filled-wine-glass idea, only more efficient. The brain behind the setup was none other ...

Dennis James, a heralded armonica virtuoso who lives in upstate New York, will visit Baltimore next weekend to be a soloist with two organizations. The story goes that in 1761, when Benjamin Franklin ...

In this charming and fascinating book, part musicology and part cultural history, Mead (War Play) looks at how Benjamin Franklin developed his most cherished invention, the armonica—a mechanized ...

A glass armonica, originally invented by Benjamin Franklin and revived at a recent performance at the Park Avenue Armory (photo by the author for Hyperallergic) In 1761, Benjamin Franklin invented an ...

Glass-ical Musick will be coming to Redding when armonica player Dennis James performs in Redding on Jan. 7. He will perform and educate audiences about his instrument, the glass armonica, which was ...

FRANKLIN -- On Sunday, Jan. 18, the Franklin Historical Museum will celebrate the birthday of our town's namesake, Benjamin Franklin, born Jan. 17, 1706. The event, from 1-4 p.m., will include a ...

If you have ever entertained dinner guests by running a wet fingertip around the edge of a crystal goblet to create a musical tone, you have experienced the pure sound that inspired one of Benjamin ...