musical glasses

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plural noun

a set of drinking glasses filled with varying amounts of water to produce ringing tones of different pitches when the player's finger is rubbed around the wet rims.

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Compare glass harmonica.

Origin of musical glasses

First recorded in 1760–70

Words nearby musical glasses

musical box, musical chairs, musical chairs, play, musical comedy, musicale, musical glasses, musicality, musicalize, musical ride, musical saw, music box

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How to use musical glasses in a sentence

He was treated like an immigrant, working for minimum wage, missing his family and having to move on from his musical career.
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Her very first performance onstage came at the age of 4, when she cameoed as a dancing flower in the musical Bye Bye Birdie.
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Her mother had a musical theater background, so Malone grew up backstage, watching productions come to fruition.
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I heard that at one point you were trying to put together a Batman musical on Broadway.
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The cultural weather was particularly clement for musical theater writers during this period.
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All my musical studies till now have been a mere going to school, a preparation for him.
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In connection with this step the practice of melodies is useful, if one has musical taste.
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There cannot be many persons in the world who keep up with the whole range of musical literature as he does.
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Chief and most musical among these signs were the almost forgotten sounds of dropping water, and tinkling rills.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
It is a great thing for the musical education of the country to have such an organization travelling every winter.
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British Dictionary definitions for musical glasses

musical glasses

pl n

another term for glass harmonica

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