Glasschord
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Glasschord from the Hans Adler collection.
The glasschord (or glasscord) is a crystallophone that resembles the celesta but uses keyboard-driven hammers to strike glass bars instead of metal bars.
External links[]
- Glass Music
- Glassichord, Chappell & Co., London, ca. 1815 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Glasschord Magazine
Categories:
- Keyboard instruments
- Crystallophones
- Stick percussion idiophones
- Idiophone instrument stubs
- Glass stubs