HISTORY

did you actually hear already once a glass glasharmonika or did you see one?
If not - and those are most -, you become to be surely surprised that this instrument once was approximately as popular as the Hammond organ, that Beethoven and C.P.E.Bach composed for it, Mozart itself played it,that famous authors such as Oscar Wilde and E.T.A. Hoffmann wrote about it, and the composer and player of the Glasharmonika Naumann from Dresden praised his playing of his instrument telling that all ladies fainted on after the other when hearing this marvellous sound; that finally a jealous controversy over market shares and production secrets of the glassworks led to the fact that the instrument –in lack of glass manufacturers- came into complete oblivion for centuries!