As a kid, I enjoyed trying to play a melody on my glass that was filled with milk or juices or even simply water at meal times. I did it simply out of boredom or compulsion to finish that content of glass. Little did I know that I was on the right path to make it big as Gerhard Finkenbeiner. His company has been producing the patented quartz glass armonicas for 25 years. Glasses filled with more or less water so as to alter the pitch of the sounds obtained by striking them with sticks are known as Glass Harmonica. But the highlight of Finkenbeiner Glass Harmonicas is that pure quartz, the purest glass, is used. Natural quartz crystals are pulverized and purified to create each cup in all of our instruments. Once these cups are hand tuned to the proper note and the sharps are gold lustered, these instruments require no professional maintenance for ten to fifteen years and will never go out of tune.

The purest glass is blown in the shape of a long cylinder, heated to 3100′F and blown out into a special shape, which is then cut in half, so as to get two bowls. Finkenbeiner uses transparent glass and gold for the brims of the bowls corresponding to the black keys of a keyboard. Offering customized instruments to suit your requirements, the prices start from $7,165 and would escalate as per required specifications.

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