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- Its rich organ-like sound made this bellow-powered instrument an integral part of Churches across Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries. Harmoniums were introduced to Indian folklore musicians by European missionaries and which prompted Indian craftsmen and musical instrument makers to start making their versions of the Harmonium.
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Professor Kratzenstein did not produce a monster; his creation was quite the opposite. When he was not conducting physiology experiments, Kratzenstein indulged in music. He was fascinated by the sheng, a Chinese free-reed instrument shaped like a vertical pipe. Marco Polo had introduced the sheng to Europe centuries earlier, and by the 1700s shengs...
Harmoniums were lighter in weight and smaller in size than organs and therefore easier to transport and less liable to be damaged in transit. Due to this, many reasonably affluent families ordered one for their living room. Heat and humidity did not affect harmoniums as much as they did pianos, so it was also suitable to ship to the tropical coloni...
Or was it? Another story had been playing out on the opposite side of the world. The portability of the harmonium (relative to the organ, the harpsichord and the piano), and its heat resistance meant that the British could export the instrument to their colonies for their homes and their churches there. Thus, several European harmoniums made their ...
The partition of the state of Bengal in 1905 into East and West Bengal by the British sparked off the nationalist Swadeshi movement. One of its tenets was that anything British was to be rejected, that which was Indian favoured. And the harmonium (never mind that it originated from continental Europe, not Britain) became a target. In the pre-harmon...
The instrument initially was the darling of Rabindranath Tagore, who used it to compose many of his songs, although he later not only fell out of love because of its musical limitations but condemned it outright and forbade its use in his residential school, Santiniketan. But the harmonium was not without its champions. Lions of Indian classical mu...
The European harmonium is, for all practical purposes, dead and extinct, only to be found in antique shops, museums, and in the homes of collectors of musical instruments. It does give little gasps and hiccups now and then from the grave. The Beatles used it in many of their songs, including “The Inner Light,” “Doctor Robert,” “We Can Work It Out,”...
Aug 20, 2021 · Harmoniums were introduced to Indian folklore musicians by European missionaries and which prompted Indian craftsmen and musical instrument makers to start making their versions of the Harmonium.
The first instrument called a harmonium was made by Alexandre Debain in 1840 in France. He patented his harmonium in Paris on August 9, 1840. A Harmonium with a swarmandal (a small, harp-like instrument, similar to a Zither or an Autoharp) was made by Bhishmadev Vedi.
The earliest instrument of the harmonium group was the physharmonica, invented in 1818 by Anton Haeckl in Vienna. His invention was inspired by the Chinese mouth organ, or sheng, which, taken to Russia in the 1770s, had introduced the free reed to Europe and aroused the interest of certain physicists and musicians.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The original model of the harmonium had foot paddles. It was invented in the year 1842 by Alexandre Debain of Paris. Harmonium was brought to India by French Missionaries in the 19th Century. At that time, it was a foot-pedaled model. The priests used it to sing prayers.
The harmonium was brought to India either by Western traders or by religious missionaries and musicians in the late nineteenth century. It was first introduced and included within Indian music compositions in the west Bengal area, and from there it spread all over the country.
