\subsection{James Smith and his Musical Glasses} \break James Smith's Tutor for the Musical Glasses (1829) \footnote{Smith} describes the disadvantages of Franklin's \glassarmonica{}: \begin{quote} The Glasses of the Harmonica are very liable to break. The larger revolve with much greater velocity than the smaller; the foot is apt to tire in turning the machinery; when to this we add the high expense of the instrument, we need not be surprised that it never came into general use.\footnote{Smith, iv} \end{quote} Smith concludes by describing ``the old slow, expressive soul-subduing melodies of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, performed upon them [the musical glasses] by a player of taste and feeling'': \begin{verse} They come o'er the ear, like the sweet South,\\ That breathes upon a bank of violets,\\ Stealing, and giving odours.\\ \end{verse} \begin{figure} \includegraphics[width=\textwidth, bb=0 0 5in 7in]{jsmith1.jpg} \caption[J.Smith Diatonic Layout]{J. Smith's Diatonic Glasses} \label{JSmithDiatonic} \end{figure} \begin{figure} \includegraphics[width=\textwidth, bb=0 0 5in 7in]{jsmith2.jpg} \caption[J.Smith Chromatic Layout]{J. Smith's Chromatic Glasses} \label{JSmithChromatic} \end{figure}