Can Sound Break Crystal?
HE china-mender interviewed on this page was asked about the familiar theory that a piece of crystal would shatter if a note was struck coinciding in pitch with the ring of the vessel itself. "Funny you should ask that," she said. "Last autumn a woman brought in to be mended a large crystal vase. It had been standing full of autumn leaves on the piano. The radio was on-a violin solo I think she said, and she heard a loud ‘ping’. The vase had cracked in several places. Afterwards she told me that she had put glycerine in the water and she wondered if this had had anything to do with it. "Once I had mended a crystal vase by cementing in a portion of the lip. I had my back turned to itit was standing on a table-when I heard two sharp little rings. I looked round and found the vase cracked in two places. The fine layer of cement had been just sufficient to throw the vase off balance, and it had cracked in an attempt to right itself."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 142, 13 March 1942, Page 18
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185Can Sound Break Crystal? New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 142, 13 March 1942, Page 18
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