noun

• A keyboard instrument in which the notes are produced by air driven through metal reeds by foot-operated bellows.

  ‘Many of the pieces contain that strange instrument, the harmonium - so unfashionable now, but an item in many well-to-do 19 th-century homes.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘They include the drums, guitar, bass, keyboards, as well as many of the less traditional instruments such as block flute, harmonium and flugelhorn.’
  • ‘Ms Joy Dhammapala plays piano and harmonium, keyboard music in the western and Sri Lankan traditions.’
  • ‘His music, instead of advancing, regressed; the songs became strangely lethargic; they featured a pumping harmonium but very little harmony.’
  • ‘In a good way, the harmonium sounds like a French accordion managing to sound bitter, sweet and wry at the same time.’