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Keyboard instrument - a minor hum
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harmonium
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A harmonium or pump organ is a type of reed organ that generates sound with foot- or hand-pumped bellows. Harmonium may also refer to: Harmonium (fictional creature) , a creature in the 1959 novel The Sirens of Titan Harmonium (poetry collection) , a 1923 ...
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.
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.