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glass harmonica

glass har·mon·i·ca (plural glass har·mon·i·cas)


noun 
Definition:
 
musical glasses: a set of drinking glasses or glass bowls, filled to graduated levels with water, that produce sounds of different pitches when their rims are rubbed with a moist finger. It was popular as a musical instrument in the 18th century, when various mechanical versions also existed.

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