glass harmonica

English

Noun

glass harmonica (plural glass harmonicas)

1. (music) A musical instrument composed of a series of spinning glass bowls, played with the fingers, invented by Benjamin Franklin.
2. (loosely) The glass harp.

Synonyms

• bowl organ
• armonica
• glass armonica
• hydrocrystalophone
• hydrodaktulopsychicharmonica
• musical glasses

Derived terms

• glass harmonicist

Translations

a musical instrument

Bulgarian: гласхармоника f (glasharmonika) Danish: glasharmonika Dutch: glasharmonica (nl) f French: harmonica de verre (fr) m German: Glasharmonika (de) f Hungarian: üvegharmonika (hu) Italian: armonica a bicchieri f, glassarmonica f Japanese: アルモニカ (arumonika) Norwegian: glassharmonika Polish: harmonika szklana f Portuguese: harmónica de vidro f (Portugal), harmônica de vidro f (Brazil) Russian: стекля́нная гармо́ника f (stekljánnaja garmónika) Spanish: armónica de cristal f Swedish: glasharmonika c