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A free-reed instrument in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows
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harmonium
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Another day we returned to find an empty space where my harmonium should have been. ▪ Both songs incorporate traditional Qawwali drumming and use of the harmonium . ▪ Eventually he built up a collection of bells which he played ...
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Harmonium is a book of poetry by American poet Wallace Stevens . His first book at the age of forty-four, it was published in 1923 by Knopf in an edition of 1500 copies. The collection comprises 85 poems, ranging in length from just a few lines (" Life ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
keyboard instrument, 1847, from French harmonium , from Greek harmonia (see harmony ). Invented c.1840.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a free-reed instrument in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows [syn: organ , reed organ ]
Usage examples of harmonium.
There was to be no mass, and no music except the Wedding March, which the harmonium player, a Marseillais employed in the date-packing trade, insisted on performing to do honour to Mademoiselle Enfilden, who had taken such an interest in the music of the church.
They were all stout antislavers, of course, as I'd guessed they would he, and would you believe it, while that blasted doctor was probing and muttering over my bottom, the women downstairs actually sang "Now Israel may say and that truly", with harmonium accompaniment.
At last the Delian brought them alongside the fixpoint, and cut the harmonium.
The homunculus lay sprawled, half falling from its platform, its delicately balanced existence completely disrupted by the music of the other ship's harmonium.
Miles's church, who had come up from Nettleton to play the harmonium and sat behind it, his conductor's eye running over the fluttered girls.