How to Use harmonium in a Sentence

harmonium

noun

• This is where my head was when Birchfield pulled open the harmonium.
  — Jenni Avins, Quartz, 28 Nov. 2019
• 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
• Since then, Fanoos rose to fame playing the harmonium and singing Ghazal or Afghan epic poetry.
  — Bryan Llenas, Fox News, 28 Nov. 2021
• 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
• 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
• These days, the sama nights are Shaidaiyi’s only chance to play the harmonium for an appreciative audience.
  — Maija Liuhto, Longreads, 28 June 2018
• 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
• On Sunday, the pews were crammed for communion and hymns in Urdu, accompanied on a handheld harmonium.
  — Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2018
• Played on a harmonium, a pump organ that belonged to the composer’s great-grandmother, the distorted notes drive an opening scene in which uniforms from dead soldiers get recycled for the fresh recruits.
  — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• The harmonium, a favorite instrument of Wagner’s, is powered by foot pedals.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• And there were instruments galore: Harpsichords, tamboura, Mellotron, harmonium, woodwinds, and a variety of guitars, pianos, and tambourines.
  — William Goodman, Billboard, 26 May 2017
• Waheedullah Barna, a 45-year-old musician and harmonium restorer, was the exception.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2021
• 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
• 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
• In crafting the musical soundscape, Hauschka took influence from his grandmother’s harmonium and Led Zeppelin.
  — Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
• Monday’s in-person concert will feature a chamber orchestra as well as musicians playing traditional Afghan instruments: the tabla, harmonium, and the rubâb, the majestic 18-string national instrument of Afghanistan.
  — Noah Schaffer, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024