Owning, Playing, & Maintaining the Indian Reed Organ.
Provides detailed instruction in how to play, maintain, and repair this popular devotional instrument as well as describing the colourful history behind it, which is a fascinating testimony to the love, skill, innovation, and intermingling 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.
Size: 14 x 22 cm, Paperback 159 Pages.
