Musical glasses

Musical glasses (Fr.: verrillon; Ger.: Glasspiel; Sp.: copólogo), a set of glasses, tuned by pouring different quantities of water into them and struck with small sticks or rubbed around the rim with wetted fingers. We hear of them in the Near East and in Europe in the 15th c., but metal or earthenware bowls struck with sticks are portrayed in a Gk. ms. of the 4th c. A.c., and our musical glasses may be derived from them. In the late 15th c. Franchino Gafuri shows a set of 6 drinking glasses…