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Gloria Parker has passed away at 100.

Ms. Parker played glasses.

At a young age, Gloria began studying violin (she said she played a child-sized instrument at the Brooklyn Academy of Music when she was 4 or 5). At 8, she began learning to play the glasses from her grandfather, who had brought the skill (and eight fragile Bohemian crystal glasses) from his native Czechoslovakia.
“When I was still a little girl,” Miss Parker told United Press International in 1984, “I had a musical vaudeville act playing both the glasses and marimba.”
She mastered how to conjure music from 28 glasses, each filled with water or white wine to produce particular sounds.
“One drop either way makes a difference,” she told The Daily News in 2012. “Height, circumference — it all makes a difference soundwise.”
She would rub her fingers over the rims of the glasses to produce a musical range of two octaves as she played pop, classical, jazz and calypso songs.

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A multi-instrumentalist, she also played the marimba, vibraphone, violin, maracas and tabor, a type of drum.

She was also in “Broadway Danny Rose” as one of Rose’s clients.

NYT obit for Bob Lanier.

Richard Wagner. He was one of the old CBS news guys who covered Vietnam and a lot of other stories.

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