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\paragraph{Cullen}
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Dr. Edmund Cullen of Dublin, who lived in the second half of the eighteenth century, was another performer on the musical glasses. He used thirty-five glasses, arranged in a special way to facilitate playing, and used a dampening device to prevent prolonged vibration. He claimed that his improvements made his instrument fully the equal of Franklin's armonica, and seems to have enjoyed considerable popularity in Ireland. Cullen claimed to have heard Fischer's celebrated rondo, Vivaldi's fifth concerto and music by Giardini played with ease and clarity. [??? Full details are given after the reprint of Franklin's letter in the Encyclopedia Britannica, third edition.]
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An Edmund Cullen is listed as President of the \Title{King’s and Queen’s College of Physicians} in Ireland in 1787.
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Dr. Edmund Cullen also published a book: \Title{Physical and chemical essays; translated from the original Latin of Sir Torbern Bergman, ... By Edmund Cullen, M.D. ... To which are added notes and illustrations, by the translator. ...} in two volumes, in 1784.
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