page_title: Dean Shostak
section_title: Instruments
hierarchical_section_title: Dean Shostak / Instruments
caption_attribution_description: English: A glass violin, held by Dean Shostak. Français&#160;: Un violon de verre.
context_page_description: Dean Shostak is an American crystallophone-player and violinist. He regularly performs his Crystal Concerts which consist of music played on his glass instruments, such as the glass violin, the glass armonica, and the crystal handbells.
context_section_description: Glass armonica: Shostak is one of only eight glass armonica players in the world.
  Glass Violin: Shostak owns one of only two glass violins in the world-the other belongs to Ikuko Kawai. The violin was created for him by the Hario Corporation.
  Cristal Baschet: Shostak plays one of only two cristal baschets in the United States.
  Crystal Handbells: Shostak worked with Malmark Handbell Company in Pennsylvania, which provided the handles and clappers for the bells, and also with Thomas Hession, who created the glass bells, to create the first glass English handbells.
  Glass Bowed Psaltery: Jim Doble created the instrument at Shostak's request.
  Grand Harmonicon (Glass harp): Shostak acquired this instrument at an auction; it has survived since the 1820s.
caption: Glass violin
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