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Albert Lavignac

In March 1864, at the age of eighteen, he conducted from the harmonium the private premiere of Gioachino Rossini's Petite messe solennelle.

Arthur Quentin de Gromard

This instrument is on display in museums in Brussels, Milan and New York, the Schweizerisches Harmonium-Museum, Liestal and Ringve Museum, Trondheim, Norway.

Cassius Khan

Khan has also collaborated with the inventor of the Mohan Veena, Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Ustad Aashish Khan the great Sarode player of the Maihar Gharana, Satvik Veena exponent Pandit Salil Bhatt, Kathak Danceuse/Harmonium soloist Amika Kushwaha, amongst other greats of Indian classical music and Ghazal singers.

César Franck

He took his vacation as soon as he could in Nemours, where he hoped to work on the proposed organ pieces as well as some commissioned works for harmonium.

Gurunanak Darbar, Ireland

On the right of the Guru Granth Sahib, musicians with harmoniums, tabla and other musical instruments sing hymns from it.

Hooke's atom

Hooke's atom, also known as harmonium or hookium, refers to an artificial helium-like atom where the Coulombic electron-nucleus interaction potential is

Inspector Ghote Hunts the Peacock

Johnny has been arrested and confessed to smuggling drugs in the Indian harmonium he has been using in his latest songs.

J'un Oeil

Highly regarded by prog fanatics as one of the top albums from Quebec, Canada in the 1970s alongside with Si on avait besoin d'une cinquième saison by Harmonium, and Les Porches by Maneige.

Lisbee Stainton

In 2012 Seth Lakeman was so impressed with Lisbee that he subsequently invited her to become part of his band singing and playing the banjo, harmonium, guitar and harmonica.

Memory of a Free Festival

David Bowie used a child's Rosedale Electric Chord Organ, obtained from Woolworths, on both LP and single versions of the song to give a "classic Ivor Cutler/harmonium feel".

Patrick van Deurzen

Geheime Tuin (Secret Garden, poems by Hendrik de Vries) (2007, Two soprano's, soprano-/altsax, harmonium, percussion)

Pitambar Deva Goswami

He learnt Ayurveda, took lessons in classical music both vocal and instrumental (Sitar, Violin and Harmonium), invited experts from Calcutta to the Sattra, along with the traditional Sattriya from senior Sattra exponents.

Priscilla Horton

In the spring of 1855, the German Reeds presented the first performance of "Miss P. Horton's Illustrative Gatherings," musical theatre performances usually consisting of one or two brief comic operas designed for a minimal number of characters and performed with either the piano and harmonium or a small ensemble of musicians.

Simple Soul

Boo Hewerdine: Acoustic guitar, backing vocals, glockenspiel, tambura, toy keyboard, harmonium

St Peter's Church, Letwell

The harmonium, dating from 19th century, was constructed by the Estey Organ Company of Brattleboro, Vermont.

Triakel

Triakel was founded in 1995 by Emma Härdelin (Garmarna), Kjell-Erik Eriksson (Hoven Droven) and Janne Strömstedt (former Hoven Droven member); Eriksson and Strömstedt had to perform together using only the fiddle and harmonium on New Year's Eve 1994 following a lost bet, and the performance was so successful that they decided to continue with the project.

Visnujana Swami

Vishnujana was especially well known within ISKCON for his singing voice, and skill at playing instruments, such as the harmonium and mridanga.

Woolson Morse

According to The New York Times, "Trained in musical composition in Germany, he was one of the first wholly capable American comic-opera composers. Morse's talent so impressed W. S. Gilbert that he asked the American composer to become his collaborator after the 1890 split between Gilbert and Sullivan. Morse refused, however, and continued to compose pieces for New York production... with the aid of harmonium, at which he always wrote his music".


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