The Jekyll and Hyde of glasses

This week’s #songrequests includes an instrument request for “water in glasses”. OK, I can do that. So I got out a set of various glasses:

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It turns out that the best sounding glass was the wine glass and the weirdest one was actually the champagne flute. How? Compare the crisp ring I was able to capture off the wine glass (then turned into a sample for NanoStudio):

Versus this wild resonance off of the champagne glass:

Both sounds will eventually be available on FreeSound.org after they get approved.