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Fun Things to Do With Wine Glasses
By Amin Ramjee - Ezinearticles

Remember Sandra Bullock in the movie Miss Congeniality where she acted as a detective that had to go under cover to solve a criminal problem? The tomboyish character that of Gracie Hard played by in the movie likes to dip her finger into a water of goblet and then traced her moist finger around the rim of the goblet, making some shrieking noise. And then while going under cover as a beauty pageant contestant; Bullock used her "talent" in making "music" using wine glasses as her musical instrument to put up a short performance.

Yes, wine glasses can be more than just vessels to serve your favourite wine. They can be used for other purposes although "playing" wine glasses as a musical instrument have never made it to the philharmonic performance.

With the delicate make of wine glasses with the long thin stems and "bowls" that come in various shapes and sizes, they do stand out to be slightly more elegant in appearance, befitting the status of the expensive vintage wine that you want to savour.

But of course, using fine wine glasses as musical instrument will be frown upon by wine connoisseurs. Noticed how when you toast with your wine glasses and you feel the "bouncy" effect? And how about the tap on the wine glass with a utensil when the best man of a wedding wants to attract the guests' attention?

That just shows that wine glasses are indeed very well crafted just to give pleasure to wine drinking. They are so delightful that wine drinking exudes certain style. That is why wine glasses are so nice to be "meddled" with. Pour some of water in the glass at various levels and you got yourself a "xylophone" made of wine glassware.

Just as in the art of making the wine glasses, to be able to play some tunes on the wine glass "xylophone" you must have the ears for tones. You have to have a lot of wine glasses to make a set that could do the "do re mi" in low to high pitches. Pour some water in the glass. But the water level should not be the same. This is to give each glass different tones when you hit them. The lesser the water is in the glass, the more hollow sound you will get.

Yes, I said, hit the glass; as in hit them with a utensil gently. Or you can always do the Gracie Hart way by wetting your fingers and trace the mouth of the glass with some pressure and you get that shrieking sound. That is pretty neat, too.

Where did they get all the idea? Well, apparently, some say that to test if the wine glass is made of crystal or glass, you trace your wet finger on the mouth of the wine glass with some pressure to see if it emit any sound. If it does, then it is really made of crystal. Actually, if you do the same "test" on a fine wine glass, it will still give the same effect. It is the thinness of the glass that gives the sound. Go try it and enjoy.

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