\section{Notes}

Anne Ford (1732–-1824) published her \textit{Instructions on Playing the Musical Glasses} on November 2, 1761 in the \textit{Public Advertiser}, London. Apparently the only surviving original copy in the world can be found at the Harvard University Library---to whom I am grateful for a photocopy. 

Herein I've reproduced the one (and only) illustration, the title page, and the complete text. Thus this represents her complete and un\-abridged \textit{Instructions}. 

For those who wish to quote Ms. Ford's \textit{Instructions}, I've noted the page breaks in the text with angle-brackets: $<$2$>$ indicates the page break in Ms. Ford's original \textit{Instructions} beginning at page 2.

Because I scanned and manually checked and corrected the result for errors, I'm sure there are still errors lurking, for which I apologize in advance. I've preserved her original spellings (appropriate for the time)---I am grateful in advance for any other bona fide typos of which you are kind enough to give me notice.

You are welcome to copy and share this document as long as you do so without charge, and do not alter it in any way.
My intention is to make this document---important in the history of glass music---freely available to the wide audience it deserves.

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\textit{William Zeitler}

www.GlassArmonica.com



 

