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Musical glasses

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glass goblets or bowls so tuned and arranged that when struck, or rubbed, they produce musical notes. Cf. Harmonica, 1.

See also: Musical


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This wooden mallet is the cork, and I'm the professor of musical glasses --tap, tap
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
She is a charming hostess; we talk of Shakespeare and the musical glasses.
The American by James, Henry View in context
Treating of its general characteristics, I should be disposed to say that it is more provincial than Boston or New York, and that there is afloat in the fair city, an assumption of taste and criticism, savouring rather of those genteel discussions upon the same themes, in connection with Shakspeare and the Musical Glasses, of which we read in the Vicar of Wakefield.
American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context
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