Crystallophones Crystallophones A crystallophone is a musical instrument that produces sound from glass. ...more on Wikipedia about "Crystallophone"
The glass harmonica, also known as glass armonica 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 (instruments of this type are known as friction idiophones). ...more on Wikipedia about "Glass harmonica"
The glass marimba is a crystallophone that is similar to the marimba, but has bars of glass instead of wood. The bars, which the performer strikes with padded mallets, are perched on a glass box to provide the necessary resonance. Glass marimbas are utilised by the Brazilian percussion ensemble, Uakti. ...more on Wikipedia about "Glass marimba"
The glasschord (or glasscord) is a crystallophone that resembles the celesta but uses keyboard-driven hammers to strike glass bars instead of metal bars. ...more on Wikipedia about "Glasschord"
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