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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 Indian harmonium, hand harmonium, samvadini, peti ("box"), or vaja, often just called a harmonium, is a small and portable hand-pumped reed organ which is very popular in the Indian subcontinent. [1] The sound resembles an accordion or other bellows driven free-reed aerophones. [1]
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]
Sudhir Nayak (Marathi: सुधीर नायक, Kannada: ಸುಧೀರ್ ನಾಯಕ್, born 15 May 1972) is an Indian classical Harmonium player, a disciple of Pandit Tulsidas Borkar and Pandit Jitendra Abhisheki.
A free reed aerophone is a musical instrument that produces sound as air flows past a vibrating reed in a frame. Air pressure is typically generated by breath or with a bellows [ 1 ] . In the Hornbostel–Sachs system, it is number: 412.13 (a member of interruptive free aerophones).
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
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Mehmood Dhaulpuri (23 March 1954 – 25 May 2011) was an Indian musician of Hindustani music, known as a leading exponent of Harmonium, an Indian variant of the Pump organ. [1] He was an accompanist to renowned Hindustani vocalists such as Parveen Sultana , Bhimsen Joshi , Jasraj , Girija Devi , Kishori Amonkar and Ustad Ghulam Sadiq Khan .