Learning to Play the Glass Armonica

Everybody knows Benjamin Franklin was a total G. Dude was a classic polymath, mastering tons of shit from languages and writing to diplomacy, chess, music, and even oceanography. Aside from being a founding father and a notable philanderer, Franklin was also quite the inventor. This old-school bro had his fingers in many pies, his fingers on many thighs, and also had his finger on rotating glass bowls of diminishing sizes.

Hold up… glass bowls? That's right. One of Franklin's lesser known but still totally radical inventions was the Glass Armonica, an instrument played by running one's wet fingertips around the lips of various glass bowls.

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