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\subsection{??? Captain Menzies and his Glass Harp}
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One of Franklin's armonica ideas was applied back to the musical glasses: tuning the glasses to have the correct pitch without water tuning. This is now called the 'glass harp'-musical glasses without the water tuning. Not only does this save the player a lot of trouble, but water in the glasses dampens the sound (the more water, the more muffled), so glass harps also sound better.
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Smith describes an improvement to the Glasses devised by Captain Menzies of the Perthshire Militia, ``a gentleman who, from his infancy, seems to have prosecuted the study of Musical Instruments with the most enthusiastic devotion''. In Menzie's improvement the wineglasses were still upright-like the musical glasses tuned with water, but they were ground to pitch-like the glasses on Franklin's armonica, so they didn't need water tuning. \footnote{Smith, v.} Later we shall meet Bruno Hoffman, a twentieth century glass performer who also tuned his musical glasses by grinding and called his instrument the 'glass harp'.
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