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The European harmonium developed in the 18th century, inspired by the Chinese sheng, a gourd mouth organ. [3] Various types of European harmoniums and reed-organs arrived in India in the 19th century, some were brought by missionaries. [2] [1] The Indian harmonium is derived from reed organ designs developed in France.
The Harmonium replaced the Sarangi in the early 20th century and went through tough times as it first was banned as accompanying instrument by All India Radio (A.I.R). Hindustani classical music exponents such as Walawalkar (and many others) established the Harmonium as solo instrument in Indian Classical music. [3] [10]
A hand-pumped Indian harmonium, of the type used in South Asia, here used at a European jazz festival.. The pump organ or reed organ is a type of organ using free-reeds that generates sound as air flows past the free-reeds, the vibrating pieces of thin metal in a frame.
The bansuri, shehnai and harmonium are important wind instruments. In the percussion ensemble, the tabla and the pakhavaj are the most popular. Rarely used plucked or struck string instruments include the surbahar, sursringar, santoor, and various versions of the slide guitar. Various other instruments have also been used in varying degrees.
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Oke, a renowned third generation harmonium artist [1] [2] [5] playing the instrument since the age of four, [4] later learned from the maestro late Pandit Govindrao Patwardhan [2] [5] for 25 years [3] to become an ace Harmonium player. [6] His first public performance was a harmonium solo in 1972 on Mumbai Doordarshan. [5]
A harmonium or pump organ is a reed organ that generates sound with foot- or hand-pumped bellows. Harmonium may also refer to: Harmonium (fictional creature), a creature in the 1959 novel The Sirens of Titan; Harmonium (poetry collection), a 1923 collection of poetry by Wallace Stevens; Hooke's atom or harmonium, an artificial helium-like atom
The earliest ringtone maker was Harmonium, developed by Vesa-Matti Paananen, a Finnish computer programmer, and released in 1997 for use with Nokia smart messaging. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] Some phone manufacturers included features for users to create music tones, either with a "melody composer" or a sample/loop arranger, such as the MusicDJ software ...