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In South Asia, the harmonium is most widely used to accompany vocalists. [1] The Indian harmonium has also recently become popular in the Western yoga subculture. It was popularized by American kirtan singers like Krishna Das and Jai Uttal. A related instrument is the shruti box, a keyless harmonium, used only to produce drones to support other ...
A glass harp, an ancestor of the glass armonica, being played in Rome.The rims of wine glasses filled with water are rubbed by the player's fingers to create the notes.. The name "glass harmonica" (also "glass armonica", "glassharmonica"; harmonica de verre, harmonica de Franklin, armonica de verre, or just harmonica in French; Glasharmonika in German; harmonica in Dutch) refers today to any ...
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.
Harmonium. The immediate predecessor of the electronic organ was the harmonium, or reed organ, an instrument that was common in homes and small churches in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In a fashion not totally unlike that of pipe organs, reed organs generate sound by forcing air over a set of reeds by means of a bellows, usually ...
The glass harmonica, invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1761, has the word "harmonica" in its name, but it is not related to free-reed instruments. The glass harmonica is a musical instrument formed from a nested set of graduated glass cups mounted sideways on an axle.
Harmonium Debain. Alexandre-François Debain (6 July 1809 – 3 December 1877) was a French inventor who developed the harmonium.He made a new action system, in which, when depressing a note on the keyboard, a valve opened thereby emitting sound from the instrument.
"In aller Munde": Mundharmonika - Handharmonika - Harmonium: Eine 200-jährige Erfolgsgeschichte. Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung, 2002. ISBN 3-922378-20-X; Buschmann, Prof. Heinrich, 1938. Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann, der Erfinder der Mund- und der Handharmonika : Ein Beitr. zur Geschichte dieser Musikinstrumente mit Benutzg d.
Dwarkin, formally known as Dwarkin & Son, founded in 1875, was an Indian enterprise for the sale of Western and Indian musical instruments based in Kolkata, and focused on the development of the hand-held harmonium.