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    harmonium


    1. ” Said the Weasel seating himself at an old harmonium in the corner of the room


    2. She was to stay at one of those refuges for timid ladies with connections in the Church which are scattered about Berlin and called _Christliche Hospiz_, places where, besides coffee and rolls, there are prayers and a harmonium for breakfast


    3. But her train did not get to Berlin till eleven o'clock that night, and when she reached the _Christliche Hospiz_ she found a letter from Ingram telling her she must be at the Anhalter station next morning at nine, and though she meant to get up early and write she spent the time, being very tired, asleep instead, and it was only when the strains of a harmonium penetrated into her room and wandered round her head making slow Lutheran noises that she woke up and realised how nearly she was on the verge of missing the train to Italy


    4. From the smell she concluded, cautiously and reluctantly sniffing while she put down both windows of her cab, that what they had to eat in the _Christliche Hospiz_ was the chorales of the harmonium expressed in cabbage; and whether it was the cab or whether it was her clothes she did not know, but there inside it with her still was cabbage


    5. A short prayer from Bosher closed the meeting, and now the reason for the presence of the two poverty-stricken-looking shabbily dressed disciples was made manifest, for while the better dressed and therefore more respectable Brothers were shaking hands with and grinning at each other or hovering round the two clergymen and Mr Sweater, these two poor wretches carried away the harmonium and the lantern, together with the hymn books and what remained of the tracts


    6. It was droning like a harmonium with the flies and bluebottles, and the floor and walls were like a slaughter-house


    7. It began with just a harmonium, a tambourine, and someone hitting a bass parade drum with a felt beater


    8. Most of the instruments were beautiful wooden contraptions: a forty-three-reed modified harmonium called the Chromelodeon and a gigantic instrument with keys the size of a railway sleeper, hit with a felt beater, called the Marimba Eroica


    9. T Bone was seated behind an absurdly small harmonium, while I’d brought a Gibson Style O guitar from 1910, which I thought looked suitably antique


    10. The immensely popular Ahmad Zahir had revolutionized Afghan music and outraged the purists by adding electric guitars, drums, and horns to the traditional tabla and harmonium; on stage or at parties, he shirked the austere and nearly morose stance of older singers and actually smiled when he sang – sometimes even at women

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    Synonyms for "harmonium"

    harmonium organ reed organ

    "harmonium" definitions

    a free-reeded instrument with a piano keyboard in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows