Harmonium

Word HARMONIUM
Character 9
Hyphenation har mo ni um
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Harmonium"

What do we mean by harmonium?

An organlike keyboard instrument that produces tones with free metal reeds actuated by air forced from a bellows. noun

One of the forms of the reed-organ (which see). noun

A musical instrument, resembling a small organ and especially designed for church music, in which the tones are produced by forcing air by means of a bellows so as to cause the vibration of free metallic reeds. It is now made with one or two keyboards, and has pedals and stops. noun

A small keyboard instrument consisting of a series of reed pipes which sound when air is allowed to pass through them by means of a valve that opens when a key is depressed. noun

A free-reed instrument in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows noun

A small keyboard instrument that consists of a series of reed pipes, which sound when one of the keys is pressed to open a valve that allows air to pass through.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Harmonium

The word "harmonium" in example sentences

In later life when he had attained to wealth and prosperity the violin and the harmonium were a constant source of solace during long winter evenings in Greenwich and Peckham. ❋ Unknown (1918)

The harmonium on which Mr. Povey used occasionally to play was still behind the door; and on the harmonium was the tea-caddy of which ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)

The chanting was in Sanskrit and Hindu, and besides the fact that the woman playing the harmonium was a regal blonde from California, we could have easily been in Varanasi. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One day I bought a "harmonium" kit at the street market in Bangalore. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Kris Davis, a pianist and composer who plays harmonium in the band, said she was attracted by the tightly structured spontaneity within the music. ❋ Martin Johnson (2011)

We were in downstairs in the cellar where I was on a piano, Paul was on the harmonium or vice versa, and we were both playing at the same time. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The orchestration, rich with harmonium, celeste and harp, and aglow with fluttering woodwind and solo string writing, displays Massenet's hunger for throwing every musical meat, fish and fowl into his recipe, with uneven results. ❋ Unknown (2011)

One girl was playing drums (tablas) while another was playing the keyboard (harmonium). ❋ Sandy Henson Corso (2010)

Menacing clouds of reverberating discord give way to toy piano chimes synchronized with chirping melodica, booming bass drum, and mournfully wheezing harmonium, all oddly juxtaposed with Steinke's warm guitar melodies. ❋ Bill Bush (2011)

Built on a foundation of hand claps, tablas, harmonium riffs and urgent, husky harmonies, the Sufi devotional music of the Pakistani Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan 1948-97 was captivating, his high tenor swirling above the appealing rhythms. ❋ Martin Johnson (2011)

Krishna Das plays a harmonium and is accompanied by a tabla player and cymbals. ❋ Matteo Pistono (2011)

Often, I come home and figure the chords out later, and then with some other ones, I'll be sitting down messing with the guitar or the harmonium or something and start a melody. ❋ Mike Ragogna (2011)

In addition to playing wheezy music (composed by Northrip) on a portable harmonium during the interludes, this leering character sometimes mimes masturbation, at one point seeming to ejaculate a semenlike fluid mostly into a handkerchief but also into the audience area. ❋ Celia Wren (2010)

He structured his band to parallel a traditional Qawwali combo — with horns to mirror the voices, percussion, harmonium — and then added his own twist: bass and guitar. ❋ Martin Johnson (2011)

The New York-bred band, which originally formed in 2004 then under the musical apprenticeship of Tom Morello in 2008 in an effort to "spearhead a revolution," features Dr. Blum, who leads the orchestra of trumpets, organ, accordion and harmonium, Leo Mintek on guitar, Jesse Williams Massa on bass and lead vocalist slash-dancer Miles Solay, who I met on the eve of their Sound Strike Arizona Benefit show in L.A. last summer. ❋ Voto Latino (2012)

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