How to Use harmonium in a Sentence
harmonium
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This is where my head was when Birchfield pulled open the harmonium.
—Jenni Avins, Quartz, 28 Nov. 2019
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Springsteen sings, plays a harmonium and banjo and Ron Aniello is in charge of drum loops and electric keyboards on the track.
—Chris Jordan, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2017
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Since then, Fanoos rose to fame playing the harmonium and singing Ghazal or Afghan epic poetry.
—Bryan Llenas, Fox News, 28 Nov. 2021
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Ornette Coleman told her to play her melodies in the lower registers, so voice and harmonium matched.
—Brian Dillon, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2022
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In August, her uncle sent the instrument back to Zohra’s mother in Ghazni, along with a violin, a flute and a harmonium.
—New York Times, 13 July 2022
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These days, the sama nights are Shaidaiyi’s only chance to play the harmonium for an appreciative audience.
—Maija Liuhto, Longreads, 28 June 2018
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For most previous Lykanthea performances, Ramgopal has relied on synths and electronic processing to ramp up the scale of her sound, which rests on her voice and the drones of a harmonium.
—Sasha Geffen, Chicago Reader, 18 Oct. 2017
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On Sunday, the pews were crammed for communion and hymns in Urdu, accompanied on a handheld harmonium.
—Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2018
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Bareilles ran through one version of the In Memoriam song, a plaintive 1960s melody, while playing a small, wooden harmonium, before deciding against using the instrument on Oscar night.
—Rebecca Keegan, VanityFair.com, 25 Feb. 2017
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The diversity gives the show richly complex music and dance — the instrumentation includes a rhythm section, strings and keys, as well as harmonium, bansuri flute, sitar, tanpura, tumbi, tabla, dhol, daf and ankle bells.
—New York Times, 23 Mar. 2022
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The harmonium, a favorite instrument of Wagner’s, is powered by foot pedals.
—Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2019
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Cale would let Nico toil at her own speed through vocals and harmonium accompaniment, and then encircle this primitive vessel with a flotilla of glockenspiel, viola, bosun’s pipe, and more.
—Brian Dillon, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2022
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On the earlier recording, the three of them added overdubs to elaborate tracks Fennelly had already cut using a pedal harmonium, synthesizers, and electronics.
—Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 21 Mar. 2018
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The album was an arduous process, with Ms. Takada composing, producing, arranging the microphones and playing everything on it, from marimba to drums, harmonium to Coke bottle.
—New York Times, 21 May 2018
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The group's basic toolkit of cornet, harmonium, bass clarinet, and hand bells eventually grew to include guimbri, tampura, drarp, autoharp, karkabas, kalimba, and shakuhachi.
—Ash Carter, Town & Country, 12 June 2013
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The score, by Volker Bertelmann, follows the current fashion for monumental skronking noises, with the tones of a harmonium amplified to stadium-guitar levels.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2023
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There’s an accordion, violin, harmonium, Armenian duduk, Iranian Tombak and even a handful of homemade instruments that make up the aural texture.
—Lila Seidman, latimes.com, 9 July 2019
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The musical accompaniment consists of drums and cymbals — occasionally played by the dancers — flute, voice and sometimes violin or harmonium.
—Marina Harss, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2018
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And there were instruments galore: Harpsichords, tamboura, Mellotron, harmonium, woodwinds, and a variety of guitars, pianos, and tambourines.
—William Goodman, Billboard, 26 May 2017
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Waheedullah Barna, a 45-year-old musician and harmonium restorer, was the exception.
—Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2021
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Over the next century, more musically minded inventors reduced the size of Kratzenstein’s device, calling their various creations a terpodian or harmonium.
—Steve Knopper, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Mar. 2021
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Meanwhile, Ellis handled violin, viola, alto flute, tenor guitar, piano, harmonium, synthesizer, loops, drum machine, glockenspiel, and autoharp, as well as singing backing vocals.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 25 Feb. 2021
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