Editing Glass harmonica (section)

==Nomenclature==
[[File:Glass harp in Rome.arp.jpg|upright|thumb|right|A [[glass harp]], an ancestor of the glass armonica, being played in [[Rome]]. The rims of [[wine glass]]es filled with water are rubbed by the player's fingers to create the notes.]]
The name "glass harmonica" (also "glass armonica", "glassharmonica"; ''harmonica de verre'', ''harmonica de Franklin'', ''armonica de verre'', or just ''harmonica'' in French; ''Glasharmonika'' in German; ''harmonica'' in Dutch) refers today to any instrument played by rubbing glass or crystal goblets or bowls. The alternative instrument consisting of a set of wine glasses (usually tuned with water) is generally known in English as "musical glasses" or the "[[glass harp]]".

When [[Benjamin Franklin]] invented his mechanical version of the instrument in 1761, he called it the armonica, based on the Italian word ''armonia'', which means "harmony".<ref>Sibyl Marcuse, "Armonica", ''Musical Instruments: A Comprehensive Dictionary'', corrected edition (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, inc., 1975).</ref><ref>{{Citation
 | last = Franklin
 | first = Benjamin
 | title = How Franklin Invented the Armonica and How to Build One
 | date =Jul 13, 1762
 | url = http://glassarmonica.com/armonica/franklin_correspondence/1.html
 | access-date = Nov 5, 2015}}
Letter written by Franklin in 1762
</ref>
The unrelated free-reed wind instrument aeolina, today called the "[[harmonica]]", was not invented until 1821, sixty years later.

The word ''"'''hydrodaktulopsychicharmonica'''"'' is also recorded, composed of [[Greek language|Greek roots]] to mean something like "harmonica to produce music for the soul by fingers dipped in water" (''hydro-'' for "water", ''daktul-'' for "finger", ''psych-'' for "soul").<ref>Ian Crofton (2006) "Brewer's Cabinet of Curiosities," {{ISBN|0-304-36801-6}}</ref> The ''[[Oxford Companion to Music]]'' mentions that this word is "the longest section of the Greek language ever attached to any musical instrument, for a reader of ''[[The Times]]'' wrote to that paper in 1932 to say that in his youth he heard a performance of the instrument where it was called a ''hydrodaktulopsychicharmonica''."<ref>As quoted from the 1970 edition of the ''Companion'' by a [http://www.glassarmonica.com/armonica/history/musicalglasses/mgvarious.php Glasssharmonica.com webpage] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080119055214/http://www.glassarmonica.com/armonica/history/musicalglasses/mgvarious.php |date=2008-01-19}}</ref> The [[Museum of Music]] in Paris displays a ''hydrodaktulopsychicharmonica''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Culture - Les musées fêtent le printemps|url=http://tf1.lci.fr/infos/france/2003/0,,1030459,00-musees-fetent-printemps-.html|language=fr|access-date=2018-12-31|archive-date=2009-01-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090111123218/http://tf1.lci.fr/infos/france/2003/0,,1030459,00-musees-fetent-printemps-.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>