Help me identify and hear a musical instrument I saw on TV about 20 years ago.
May 24, 2007 8:38 AM Subscribe
Singer Linda Ronstadt appeared on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson years ago (20 or more?). She sang a song that was accompanied by a strange looking instrument. My faulty memory bank says it looked like a ceramic pot turning on a horizontal rotisserie!
Can you help me identify it...show me a picture...let me hear it?
Best answer: Could it have been related to a glass harmonica? (An instrument also called the "glass armonica" made up of glass cups that rotate on a central spindle and work the same way as you rubbing your finger around the rim of a glass.)
[I didn't see the show, could be way off-base]
posted by rmless at 8:45 AM on May 24, 2007
[I didn't see the show, could be way off-base]
posted by rmless at 8:45 AM on May 24, 2007
Best answer: It must have been a glass harmonica... she released a whole album using the instrument.
posted by kdern at 8:46 AM on May 24, 2007
posted by kdern at 8:46 AM on May 24, 2007
Response by poster: Yes, I'm sure that's it. Thanks so much for quick and accurate response. I'm thrilled to find this info... the hive ROCKS!
posted by rdauphin at 8:53 AM on May 24, 2007
posted by rdauphin at 8:53 AM on May 24, 2007
I wonder if it might have been a berimbau? That was my first guess from your description of the instrument. Maybe one of the songs from Frenesi - released in 1992
posted by rongorongo at 8:54 AM on May 24, 2007
posted by rongorongo at 8:54 AM on May 24, 2007
Invented by your friend and mine, Benjamin Franklin. Let's have a nice round of applause for Ben.
posted by fidelity at 9:06 AM on May 24, 2007
posted by fidelity at 9:06 AM on May 24, 2007
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posted by roger ackroyd at 11:50 AM on May 24, 2007
posted by roger ackroyd at 11:50 AM on May 24, 2007
aren't all rotisseries horizontal? has anybody here ever seen a vertical rotisserie?
posted by bruce at 1:50 AM on May 25, 2007
posted by bruce at 1:50 AM on May 25, 2007
has anybody here ever seen a vertical rotisserie?
Certainly. On my in-laws' countertop, also.
posted by cairnish at 2:00 PM on May 25, 2007
Certainly. On my in-laws' countertop, also.
posted by cairnish at 2:00 PM on May 25, 2007
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