Re: Yeah i think im done with beethoven

The instrument was made by Benjamin Franklin… haha
Also this yt-comment:
The glassharmonica was very popular from the start. 400 works were
composed for it, some unfortunately now lost, and probably about 4000
instruments were built in 70 years. The instrument, adored or hated,
roused passion. Paganini said "such a celestial voice", Thomas Jefferson
claimed it was "the greatest gift offered to the musical world of this
century", Goethe, Mozart, Jean-Paul, Hasse, Theophile Gautier praised
it. A dictionary of instruments mentions that the sounds 'are of nearly
celestial softness but can cause spasms", In a Treaty on the Effects of
Music on the Human Body by J.M. Roger, 1803, we can read that "its
melancholy tone plunges you into dejection () to a point the strongest
man could not hear it for an hour without fainting". True, some
interpreters ended their lives in mental hospitals, among them one of
the best, Marianne Davies.
In his Method to Teach Yourself Armonica
(1788), J.C. Miller retorts- "It is true that the Armonica has strange
effects on people. If you are irritated or disturbed by bad news, by
friends or even by a disappointing lady, abstain from playing, it would
only increase your disturbance". The Armonica was accused of causing
evils such as nervous disorder, domestic squabbles, premature
deliveries, fatal disorders, animal's convulsions. The instrument was
even banned from a German town by police decision for ruining the health
of people and disturbing public order (a child died during a concert).
Franz Anton Mesmer, a Vienna doctor known for his experiments
(Mesmerism) and for using hypnosis to treat his clients, would condition
them by playing the glassharmonica for them. He was expelled from Vienna
after a blind pianist, Marie Paradies, recovered sight but to the
detriment of her mental health.
Spread by rumor, this contributed to the death of the Armonica
considered in 1829 as "the fashionable accessory of parlors and
sitting-rooms".“
- from THE GLASS HARMONICA by Thomas Bloch (Translation to English by
Michelle Vadon