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The
Harmonium Handbook
By Satyaki Kraig Brochschmidt
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Rs. 175
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Paperback:
155 Pages Dimensions: 21.7 X 14cm
Description
This book provides
detailed instruction in how to play, maintain, and repair this popular
devotional instrument. It also reveals the colorful history of free-reed
instruments such as the harmonium, which dates back to the time
of Marco Polo. The story behind the modern version of the harmonium
is a fascinating testimony to the love, skill, innovation, and intermingling
of many of the world's great cultures. The book 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
In The Harmonium
Handbook, the author offers in written form the love of his heart
and the depth of his experience as both musician and technician.
Satyaki Kraig
Brockschmidt is a former Microsoft engineer. Since 1996 devotional
chanting has been one of his favorite pastimes and he is considered
highly skilled in the art. Importing Indian harmoniums on a regular
basis since 1998, has given him abundant opportunities to explore
the fine details of the instrument and to find solutions, as befits
his engineering background, to a wide variety of technical problems.
This book is
available in bookstores throughout India. If your bookstore doesn't
carry it, give them the name of the publisher and the book title,
and they can order it for you.
Publisher:
New Age Books
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