PLAY A VIRTUAL GLASS ARMONICA! Contrary to what you might've gleaned at Wednesday's enjoyable trivia contest at Dempsey's, Benjamin Franklin did not impress Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart by blowing on a glass harmonica.

Franklin is credited with creating a musical instrument known as the glass armonica (or glass harmonica) but it is not the kind of instrument you put between your lips and blow.

In the words of oddmusic.com (where you can see pictures of the glass armonica), Franklin's instrument actually "is played on the same principle of rubbing a wet finger around the rim of a wineglass. The glass bowls are individually tuned, so that they do not need to be filled with water, though the players fingers do need to be moistened with water. The glass bowls are tuned by size, mounted one inside each other with cork on a metal spindle. The glasses are made to spin with a flywheel attached to a foot pedal."

You can play a virtual Glass Armonica here. Enjoy!