Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An organlike keyboard instrument that produces tones with free metal reeds actuated by air forced from a bellows.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the forms of the reed-organ (which see).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music 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.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a free-reed instrument in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
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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
The Old Wives' Tale Arnold Bennett 1899
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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.
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One day I bought a "harmonium" kit at the street market in Bangalore.
Boing Boing 2008
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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: Songs From The South and How To Make Gravy: Conversations With Paul Kelly Plus Lisa Hannigan Mike Ragogna 2011
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Kris Davis, a pianist and composer who plays harmonium in the band, said she was attracted by the tightly structured spontaneity within the music.
Finding a Rhythm in the Space Between Styles Martin Johnson 2011
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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: Distinct of a Decade and Definitive of an Era: This Artweek.LA (June 27-July 3) Bill Bush 2011
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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.
Finding a Rhythm in the Space Between Styles Martin Johnson 2011
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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: Distinct of a Decade and Definitive of an Era: This Artweek.LA (June 27-July 3) Bill Bush 2011
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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: Songs From The South and How To Make Gravy: Conversations With Paul Kelly Plus Lisa Hannigan Mike Ragogna 2011
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