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TIPS Be careful and hit the glass with the knuckle of your finger(s). Please select the appropriate stick(s) and experiment softly how and where 's the best place to hit the glass surfaces. First of all, you hang the glass pieces up in a frame. Only in this way, the glass can vibrate totally free. To bore holes in glass plates, please refer to a qualified person, or follow carefully the instructions to avoid broken glass.
The large glass plate evokes a deeper and warmer sound than a small glass. Just like highly qualified classical instruments, the fundamental (=basic pitch) and overtones (= harmonics) determine the sound quality and timbre from ancient pieces of glass (plates), also all musical objects without specific sound holes or boxes. Ancient glass is full of little holes because it 's traditionally blowed: look at the little air bubbles and irregularities in the glass plate. That 's sound quality.
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