A harmonium, also called a "reed organ" or "pump organ", is a keyboard instrument that is a lot like an organ. It makes sound by blowing air through reeds, which are tuned to different pitches to make musical notes. A harmonium can be made to work using either the feet or the hands:

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]

2020年7月15日 · The harmonium, although perceived to be an Indian musical instrument, was imported to India from the West. It is currently the most popular free-reed aerophone instrument on the Indian subcontinent. It is used in different mediums like …

Harmonium, free-reed keyboard instrument that produces sound when wind sent by foot-operated bellows through a pressure-equalizing air reservoir causes metal reeds screwed over slots in metal frames to vibrate through the frames with close tolerance.

2018年8月8日 · Jonathan Scott presents an introduction to the instrument known as The Harmonium, including the history, sound, and how it works, with examples on instruments from the collection of Pam & Phil...

Also known as a 'reed organ' or 'pump organ', a harmonium is a type of keyboard that functions much like a small organ. It creates sound by blowing air through metal reeds - these are tuned …

2024年5月18日 · At its core, the harmonium is an air-driven instrument that produces sound through the vibration of metal reeds. When you play a note on the harmonium, air is pumped into the instrument through bellows. The air pressure causes the reeds to vibrate, creating musical tones. But how exactly does this process work? Let’s break it down step by step:

The harmonium is a type of reed organ, a freestanding keyboard instrument in which air is forced by manual or voluntary means over a set of free floating reeds by bellows.

The harmonium is a keyboard instrument on which twelve semitones of the tempered scale are fixed once and for all in all the three octaves: mandra, madhya and tara. On keyboard instruments only straight notes can be played, grace notes and quarter-tones not being possible.

The harmonium is a free reed instrument of the keyboard family. The player uses foot-operated pedals to send air through bellows and metal reeds that create an organ-like, mellow sound. The pitch is determined by the chambers housing these reeds as there are no pipes.