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Significant innovations by Debain’s fellow Parisian Jacob Alexandre opened up still more expressive options for the player blessed with skill and ear. But the massive expansion of the ‘everyday’ harmonium market in the 19th century was sparked when an Alexandre employee migrated to the US, taking with him a key idea.
Harmonium was a Quebec progressive rock band formed in 1972 in Montreal. [1] It became one of the most well-known music bands in the province of Québec in the 1970s and continues to hold an iconic and influential status to this day.
Nov 13, 2016 · Harmonium founders look back as 1976 classic L’Heptade is reissued. 40 years later, one of the defining albums of Quebec rock is re-released in a new version remixed by Serge Fiori and Louis...
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Jun 7, 2023 · There were moving scenes on BBC The Repair Shop after Poet Laureate Simon Armitage brought a harmonium in for repairs which had once sat in his local church in Marsden. Both Simon Armitage and his father, Peter, had sung in the church choir, performing alongside the harmonium for decades.
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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,”...
Jonathan Scott presents an introduction to the instrument known as The Harmonium, including the history, sound, and how it works, with examples on instrument...
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The harmonium was a popular church and household instrument until the electronic organ drove it from the market after the 1930s. Compositions for the instrument include numerous works by the French composers César Franck and Louis Vierne and a quartet for two violins, cello, and harmonium by the Bohemian composer Antonín Dvořák.
