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The Harmonium Handbook : Owning, Playing, and Maintaining the Devotional Instrument of India, EPUB eBook

The Harmonium Handbook : Owning, Playing, and Maintaining the Devotional Instrument of India EPUB

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The Harmonium Handbook provides detailed instruction in how to play, maintain, and repair this popular devotional instrument. It also reveals the colorful history of free-reed instruments such as the harmonium, which dates back to the time of Marco Polo. The story behind the modern version of the harmonium is a fascinating testimony to the love, skill, innovation, and intermingling of many of the world's great cultures.

The Harmonium Handbook Reveals:

  • The history of the Indian harmonium, from Ancient China to Europe and America.
  • The essentials of owning and caring for Indian harmoniums, helping them give many years of service.
  • How to play the harmonium in a variety of styles, from the simple to the complex, including single-note melody, melody with a drone, chords, and other more advanced methods (a complete appendix of chords and chord inversions is provided).
  • How to explore the ';inner realms' of the instrument and perform a variety of adjustments and corrections, including how to tune a harmonium's individual brass reeds.

Satyaki Kraig Brockschmidt is a Microsoft design engineer. He offers precision, inspiration, and an occasional dose of wit in sharing both his musical and technical experience with this special instrument.

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