# Musical Water Glasses- ever treated as more than just a parlor trick?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 29, 2013, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-water-glasses-ever-treated-as-more-than-just-a-parlor-trick/654240 "2013-03-29T03:22:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Renifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Renifer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renifer)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-water-glasses-ever-treated-as-more-than-just-a-parlor-trick/654240/21 "2013-04-08T15:47:10Z")

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Miss Congeniality (was to be Sandra Bullock’s “talent”)

“Talent” and plot point (even a plot point done for laughs) is a few grades above parlor trick, right?

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**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-water-glasses-ever-treated-as-more-than-just-a-parlor-trick/654240/22 "2013-04-09T08:13:16Z")

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I would have sworn **Cecil** wrote a column on this, but I can’t seem to find it in the archives…

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**Author:** ![Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stark_Raven_Mad)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-water-glasses-ever-treated-as-more-than-just-a-parlor-trick/654240/23 "2013-04-09T12:37:57Z")

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The main theme of the very excellent soundtrack to Rian Johnson’s _Brick_ was mostly played on water-filled wine glasses.

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