Fig. 489.
Music From Every-day Glass Finger-bowls
and drinking-glasses. Try it. Collect as many different kinds of glasses as you can find, the thinner the better. Place them on a wooden table (Fig. 490) and with a wooden hammer made by pushing an empty spool on one end of a lead-pencil (Fig. 491) gently strike first one glass then another to find the different tones. Having ascertained these, make the glasses give forth the simplest chimes of
Fig. 491. the church bells. But do not stop here; experiment until you are able, with various taps, to bring out more music than you at first imagined possible. Let the glasses, like Tennyson’s happy bells, “ring out the false, ring in the true.” The same poet in “Locksley Hall” has the speaker ask his comrades to “sound upon the bugle-horn” when they want him. Few girls will ever try their powers on a real
Fig. 492.
Fig. 493.
Bugle-horn,