Description
This is one of the musical glasses created by Percy Grainger for performances of his Tribute to Foster. In performance, most of the glasses were filled to a marked line with liquid, to sound at a specific pitch. Ella Grainger painted the tuning lines on the glasses with black oil paint. A few of the glasses, including this large blue vase marked for playing by Ella, produced the desired pitch without the need for water.
This instrument is formed from 5cm-thick glass, attached to large sheets of cardboard with green string and sticking plaster. It has handwrittten "C# for Mrs. Percy Grainger to play."