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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A musical instrument consisting of a set of graduated glass bowls on a rotating spindle that produce tones when a finger is pressed to their moistened rims.
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- noun music A musical instrument composed of a series of spinning glass bowls, played with the fingers, invented by Benjamin Franklin. See
armonica .
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hernesheir commented on the word glass harmonica
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February 16, 2013