Text: Harmonica, Armonicon, Harmonicon. The musical glasses, a serires of glass cups of various sizes and thicknesses, capable of producing the different notes of the diatonic scale by friction upon the edges. The name armonica was given to this instrument by Benjamin Franklin, to whom also the credit of the invention is sometimes given, but the idea was suggested by Mr. Pickeridge, and Irish gentleman, and first carried out by M. Delaval, and was in uuse long before the name armonica wasgiven to it by Franklin.

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