"Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" on the Glass Armonica
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- čas přidán 5. 02. 2007
- Find this and more at www.williamzeitler.com/store/C... . William Zeitler plays his arrangement of Tchaikowsky's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" from the Nutcracker (1892) on the glass armonica invented by Benjamin Franklin. (This is the song Hanna plays on Kuroshitsuji.) He is accompanied by a harp and a bass clarinet.
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I love how he's dressed as the inventor of the instrument, Ben Franklin.
That's actually Ben Franklin. This is rare unseen footage.
NitroFlak ;)
omfg is there footage of Jefferson playing violin too?????
cock blockula!
They were being sarcastic -_-
I knew Ben Franklin had glasses but I didn't know he played them. Also the camera technology back then was amazing.
It's even more impressive when you realize that he's two years dead when this piece was composed!
Yonkage he's truly ahead of his time
It was only the camera he invented that looked this good. It fell out of fashion like the glass armonica and was forgotten for a long time. We had to put up with black and white film over color digital for a long time as a result.
Underrated comment
Right after he invented a stove, he worked out time travel. I'm surprised you didn't read about it in his sequel to his autobiography. Ooops. My bad. It hasn't been published yet. Carry on.
This is a much more mystical and magical Sugar Plum Fairy than as played by the traditional celesta, which sounds rather more chirpy and cheerful. Bravo.
Absolutely correct. The glass harmonica makes the celesta sound like Def Lepperd.
It sounds more natural on the Glass Armonica, as if it was written for the instrument.
It is a real shame these instruments never became more widely available.
They were really popular around 1780-1810 or so. Even Mozart and Beethoven composed for it. But music was moving out of the relatively small aristocratic halls into large public concert halls, and without amplification it couldn't be heard any more. So they gave up on it.
@@grailheart it being prone to breakage also meant it was expensive to maintain. one of the guys playing a modern version (electric motor instead of foot powered) says it is always like Christmas opening it up after transport.
I just watched a video about how this instrument is cursed. Well back in the old days. Idk how true it is.
There’s also some info I found on them being banned in some places, apparently they can drive people insane with prolonged exposure and have caused a lot of very odd and disturbing situations
@@zyanidwarfare5634 They talked about this on Rob Scallon's video. It's true, but not true. They were banned for this reason, but there is no reason these would have caused any issues. People thought something was going to happen, so they made it happen. Mass hysteria, just like with King Tut's tomb.
Plot twist... a CD is playing in the background and this guy is just trying to stop the machine from spinning.
Brooke _ lol
Yessss
one of the dankest comments i have ever seen on youtube :)
😂😂😂
Lol XD
I’ve been coming back to watch this video since 2007, never fails to mesmerize me.
Bless you!
The sound is hard to describe. Very interesting and beautiful and powerful.
Thanks for listening!
haunting
opening a portal
Geez, that's a cool sound! It's so perfect for this song. Utterly haunting!
this part of the Nutcracker was made to be played with that instrument
Actually, no. It was written for Celesta.
From Wikipedia:
"One novelty in Tchaikovsky's original score was the use of the celesta, a new instrument Tchaikovsky had discovered in Paris. He wanted it genuinely for the character of the Sugar Plum Fairy to characterize her because of its "heavenly sweet sound""
DoctorWhoFanBadWolf my bad, a new thing learned
You got Ben Franklin playin some bowls here
I was just surfing CZcams and saw this in my recommended videos. I'd never heard a glass harmonica before now. I'm impressed.
*armonica
+Lila DiMasi Invented by Benjamin Franklin. And yes it is called a Glass Armonica.
+TheStarToursTraveler it is both, armonica or glass harmonica
heard of it a long time ago as a sound option on a keyboard when I was a child. Never really knew what it was, now I know.
same here.
what an underappreciated musical instrument.
It's too interesting musical instrument. Why people hate this?? How can anyone hate this beautiful pice of art by Benjamin Franklin!!
did my seventh grade instrument presentation on this instrument got a king size snickers from the teacher for going against the stream and choosing an uncommon one and teaching something new. thanks ben franklin!! im 20 now and havent amounted to anything but that was a good day
Mood
Whos the shitty camera man who kept zooming in the tree?lol
the tree is the most interesting part ofc
Trees
They are us
Trees
They are us
As árvores somos nozes 😂
初めてアルモニカの音聴きました。
神秘的な音で素敵ですね
@@user-rw9cs7js3j
そうです！
あのお方の動画を見て、
アルモニカの音を
聴かなければと思い、きました！
@@user-rw9cs7js3j
そうですよね～
Man, that Benjamin Franklin was a talented man!
Everyone's like "BLACKLKK BUTLERER!! and I'm just here bc an awkward nerdy friend told me to look it up during a formal dance where we both didn't have dates and were being antisocial
+Lila DiMasi
Who needs a date when you have a nerdy friend to watch anime with?
To heck with social norms.
Is saw it in an educational video....
Wow you're such a special snowflake.
I guess I'm that 0.5% that really likes American history, particularly Benjamin Franklin.
What a beautiful haunting sound. Totally unlike any other instrument I have ever heard or played. I will listen to this again in the future. Thank you for posting this :D
たしかに耳が疲れる！
ずっとは無理!!!!!
演奏者さんすげぇな....
After 14 years:
CZcams: you want to watch "glass harmonica" before you sleep?
Me: yes
Literally same! 😂
How come only a few people know this instrument? I really thought this was a famous instrument. Benjamin Franklin invented this.
The guy playing it apparently knows. He's dressed as Benjamin Franklin.
its fucking expensive. thats why
lameglio gioventu And that's why he's dressed as Benjamin Franklin.
FOR REAL!!?? HE DID?? wow. music class don't be teaching us cool stuff man!
cuz back then a rumor went around that if you played or listened to this instrument you'd go insane.
I feel this is how this should always be played. So beautiful.
〇〇さんから✋
私はこれ普通に好きかもしれない
仲間がいるとは､､､
名前出すのやめた方がいいですよ
@@user-rw9cs7js3j
もしくは元吹奏楽部(パーカッションパート)所属のCZcamsとか(殴
ひじり
名前出さない方がいいよ
すいません！
書き直しておきます！
Do you think they ever thought "hey, I bet someone a decade from now is gonna have this in their recommended feed" when they uploaded this?
2021 now
@@dielaughing73 you beat me to it
Out of the 999,370 hits on this video, I'll bet I have listened to it more than 50 times. What a wonderful instrument and the person playing it has talent... Thanks for posting this..
Hauntingly ethereal, impossibly beautiful. This instrument sounds so extremely unlike anything else in the world. I would give almost anything for a chance to own and play one of these treasures.
Such a splendid, hypnotic and penetrating sound... Glass harmonica really sounds like Heaven! 💖🤍
Its like this instrument was designed specifically to play this piece.
Humans are capable of so many wonderful things, and yet such horrible things by others
Please show us the way glorious Space Elf
Emman Mojica It is the way of simple logic, dont be illogical, LLAP
michael rosenstock Hey! I worked on that show. Well, not the old one with Nimoy, but the newer one with Picard. I did makeup.
Gil Mosko I am am the last one to say what is true or not but to be something as awesome as you claim yo have done do you have some memorabilia we can see, so I can go all fanboy on how was it to meet the cast, and how is data and so o
+Gil Mosko
The sound is so haunting and mysterious but also beautiful.
Sounds so much like a Celtic version of the famous dance of the sugar plum fairy. How beautiful is that 🥰
Love everything about this ❤ wonderful performance . The setting and the period dress . 😍 Lovely
Thank you so much!
@@grailheart You're welcome .
These instruments are just amazing, and so are the people who play them! I saw one played in person about 20 years ago and I am still impressed by its" "other worldliness' sound. Thanks for posting.
I think I prefer this armonica version to the celeste version of this song. The armonica is absolutely stunning! I'm so glad Ben Franklin invented this instrument, if only I could learn to play such an amazing invention.
考完2021年學測英文科後專門過來看富蘭克林玻璃琴的可在此簽到
Whoever clicked on this video after GAST 2021‘s English test could sigh in here
🈯
@@user-mi4vo1tu9q指
🈯️
GSAT
指日可待
So few mentions about Harry Potter in the comments. I'm impressed.
Harry Potter is old news.
YOU'RE old news
Yeah its mostly black butler
because a chelsea is used instead at HP music
@@TheCaptainSplatter You shut your mouf...
What's equally amazing to the instrument itself is the fact that he memorized that whole song. I have a hard time remembering it in my own head let alone on an instrument and I'm pro musician. Outstanding!
Dear Mister Potter, We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Omg xD
This dialouge perfectly fits with the sound of it. It made me imagine youg potter reading the letter with curiosity on his face.. And It could be a good background music for Luna lovegood as well, I guess?? :)
Turn to page 394...
Dear Mr. Franklin, We are pleased to inform you that your appointment for the post of Hogwarts headmaster has been confirmed.
I don't think they used a glass armonica in the harry potter sound track. I believe they used some sort of instrument that looks like a piano but makes a bell noise. I don't know what's called.
Man the cut you'd get if one of those got an edge
I just love how us, humans, the "top of the food chain" and "most intelligent species" go out of our way and do this . . . beautiful
這裡有沒有學測生考完英文來看看什麼是玻璃琴?🙌
yeah, I knew what an armonica is but I was like "what does it SOUND like though" during the test
guess I found it
學測生報到:)
this song is great for christmas now
Just saw "Mr Holmes" movie yesterday, and this was in it! Very cool!
Thank you Ben Franklin, that was great.
hands down best comment ive read in months.
That's Benjamin Franklin.
That is because Benjamin Franklin invented this instrument.
+Nolansykinsley Wait...
really? I had no idea,
I seriously LMAO'd
lmao
美音さんのアルモニカ都市伝説動画から来ました！🙌
私もです!
331 chocolate
名前出さない方がいいですよ
god! how many amazing musical instruments there are that I don't know yet...❤
And -- were invented by Benjamin Franklin! And -- Mozart composed for it!
It fits so well! And dressed as Ben Franklin! Such perfection!
某吹奏楽CZcamsrMさんの動画から来た
怖い物見たさで来た人✋
あったりめーだよ！
LE- CIEL
名前出さない方がいいよ
はーい
はーい
Hola amigos
Really Nice. The dulcet tones of the glass armonica are perfect for one of my favorite Nutcracker Suite songs. Thank you for sharing..
It's guys like this who make you realize how little you've accomplished.
In other words, that's amazing.
Most charming. I can see the Sugar Plum Fairy delicately dancing!
Here is another instrument I have not seen before but it sounds wonderful.
a most heavenly sound!
I met a gentleman in the post office today as I was shipping a guitar. We started talking about music and he brought up the armonica. Admittedly I've never seen one but obviously I've heard it many times. This is a beautiful, unique instrument. Beautifully played.
Quite a match between the sound and the piece and its title of song
演算法為什麼不早個兩天帶我來這裡
Hermoso instrumento... El instrumento de los ángeles...
My daughter has danced to Mr Zeitler's glass harp version for the last 4 years!!! She is so dedicated that she will not dance to any other person's version of this tune!
At a weekend party in the mountains, someone had one of these. I love the sound. But even better when my GF and I went for a walk. It was being played, outdoors, as we crested a hill, on the way back. At first, the sound was almost subliminal. A real treat!
But outdoor music is often special, the way the wind might change the sound.
14 years.... this was uploaded 14 years ago and it has 5.7M views??? That's it??? Seriously?
There are plenty of videos uploaded 14 years ago and today they still have 13 views!
@@grailheart You're apart of youtube history! I remember watching this as a teenager and being amazed, still am.
Never thought that this was real! Hahaha.. thanks to kuroshitsuji (black butler) for introducing me to this beautiful instrument :)
me 2 hi 5
lol me too!! XD
I am also thinking of this!!! I can’t believe such an instrument really exists! I thought I already knew music quite well but I felt bad about myself that I didn’t even know there is such wonderful instrument. Wow that sound is making me get goosebumps. I feel blessed to have heard music from this instrument
Lol that's how i discovered it too!!!
:) First the teacher introduced this to the students, (me) and then I saw that Black Butler episode. I'm like :OMFG HANNAH THATS THE GLASS INSTRUMENT THAT BEN FRANKLIN MADE OR SOMETHING I FORGOT~!! :D
It's not even Christmas and yet I find this immensely satisfying.
How cool! The sound is hauntingly beautiful!
"This is the song Hanna plays in Kuroshitsuji" damn sis that got me attention
I never would have imagine that this instrument is REAL until I'd watch Black Butler.. That anime is the reason why I'm listening to this music right now..
Holy craps, me too!
lmao same here
ME THREE! Sebby and Hannah brought me here!
and five~!
SIX
I was here 10 years in the past
And here I am again
Thank you.
I love this piece even more played on the glass armonica.
Saving to my play list.
Glad you like it!
Don't play it at a outdoor concert in the December in Canada. Hehe
Muito lúdico esse som me faz lembrar de quando era criança
I think this song is even more beautiful on this instrument! Happy birthday
Wonderful... So glad to have the pleasure of seeing and hearing this instrument. So much commitment to having it made, and then actually being able to play it is a great accomplishment!!!!
美音から来た人いる？
わーい
この
名前出さない方がいいよ
@@user-lc3in4kj6c なぜ
全世界サンタ協会中部地区担当
？こっちがなぜ。なんだが？
常識ってわかるか？
この動画の人がやってるのに、なぜ他に人の名前が出るのか分からない。
名前を出してる人にも迷惑だ。
@@user-lc3in4kj6c
ﾄﾞﾕｺﾄ?日本語って難しいですね。
Black Butler~♥♥
this was sang 1 year before I was born, classic late 2000s youtube, gotta love it
This feels like the perfect instrument for this song, magical and slightly eerie
My cousin died listening to this. It drove him insane, glad he explained the cause of his death on a paper before he committed suicide.
Really?
@@zozoek1308 yeah. No joke, I cried my eyeballs out since he was my favourite cousin.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph, the vibrant sound really hear the Christmas spirit.
Ho ho ho!
This is absolutely beautiful!
Amazingly beautiful.
sounds like this one instrument on the harry potter soundtracks
the instrument in harry potter is a celesta
And that instrument is also what this piece here was originally written for.
IS THAT BEMJAMIN FRANKLIN!!!
yes.
Ben invented that instrument.....
Nickathome Smith really!?!?
AlexPixelBite yep in 1761
nope, in 1862
ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL, MAGICAL SOUNDS OF CHRISTMAS TIME! THIS MAKES THE HOLIDAY SEEM MORE SPECIAL!
Never getting bored of this.
I hear strings.
Yes, you do. What's wrong with that?
Zormac
The title leads one to believe the piece would contain sound only from the glass instrument.
Eighteenth Oh, well, I hadn't thought of that. Many videos showcasing instruments have the base in the background with other instruments (often a keyboard) for strings and percussion, and the main instrument is often responsible for the melody. It's also very common to see people who edit their videos to have the same instrument playing different tracks.
It's safe to say, though, that this song was played on the glass harmonica, as the title suggests :)
That may be. It just makes it harder to distinguish the true tone of the instrument I'm watching the video to hear.
Eighteenth You'll notice in the description it says: "He is accompanied by a harp and a bass clarinet."
ある人の動画を見て来た人？
いるよね？
みおとさんですか？？
( ´-ω-)σ ﾋﾟﾝﾎﾟｰﾝ♪
でも名前は、出さない方が良いかと。せめて 、み〇と とか
@@and-gq6xx
そうですよね、ごめんなさい😢これからは気を付けます！！
@@SS-xs7he いやいや(*^^*)大丈夫ですよ笑
吹部なんですか〜？
@@and-gq6xx 吹部ですよー！ホルンしてます‼
Such an enchanting piece. Totally in ❤️ !
One of the few not here because of Kuroshitsuji... But it does make me think of it. Truly awesome instrument, and such a good choice of song for it! ...Makes me want curry...
MMmmm I heard of the armonica a long time before Black Butler, but this isn't the song Hannah plays. That song is simply called "armonica" and was written specifically for the soundtrack.
み〇とさんから来た人多いななんか嬉しいw
That sounds so beautiful
Absolutely beautiful
晚上睡不著就聽這個了
可能會做惡夢吧 笑死
去你的學測
🈯️🌅🉑️待
就是在找你這種留言XD
學🈚️🈯️境
wat
If anyone here is confused about the large amount of new comments written in Chinese these few days, it is because in the English paper of the nationwide student assessment of Taiwan, there is a passage about the glass armonica in the comprehension part, but both the passage and the questions are confusing, and made a lot of examinee lose marks. Therefore, it became a trending meme in Taiwan. That's why this comment section is filled with Chinese comments
Thanks! Hope I can help!
@@grailheart you're a total legend lol, for replying a comment in a video you posted 13 years ago
@@grailheart never thought someone could understand my shitty English
This is magical!
That sounds so trippy its beautiful the sound is so full I'm just so amazed by this instrument
Everybody is like "BLACK BUTLER BROUGHT ME HERE" mean while i was brought here by a freaking Benjamin Franklin project... my gawd i'm so lame V~V
Hey i was watching mysteries at the museum when i saw this imstrent
XD Tristian Ruiz
Tristian Ruiz me too! I wonder if it's healing me...
Melody Lover My girl brought me here :P I feel like that's a win.
Melody Lover
I think I can 1 up you there. I was brought here when listening to the song on musical Tesla Coils, and saw this in the related videos. Never knew what a glass armonica was until now.
I'm a violinist, and now I'm seriously wondering how I could find one of these things. I've never seen anything so unique.
Haunting and creative. Thanks so much for posting.
Just amazing both you & the glass almonica !