harmoniums

Each song begins with the singers intoning wordless long notes over the steady drone of two harmoniums, a kind of horizontal accordion that has begun to take the place of older instruments like the sitar.

Qawwali Ambassadors Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2011

A group of qawwali musicians, called a party, typically consists of eight or nine men — women are, for all intents and purposes, excluded from traditional Muslim music as respectable women are traditionally prohibited from singing in the presence of men, though these traditions are changing — including a lead singer, one or two side singers, one or two harmoniums (which may be played by lead singer, side singer or someone else), and percussion.

The Qawwals and Qawwali « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008

On Tuesday, Union Square Park will open its gates to the sound of tambourines, reed flutes, harmoniums and guitars as more than a dozen Pakistani musicians take to the stage to launch the inaugural New York Sufi Music Festival.

The Ecstatic Sounds of Peace 2010

At one time the building had been a factory — harmoniums had been built there — and, factory-like, it had uselessly high ceilings, of pressed tin.

'The Senator's Wife' 2008

Musicians were beaten and imprisoned, their rubab% › iamboura% › and harmoniums trampled upon.

A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled 2007

Next, to their aural orifices, and the avenues audient of the brain, was borne a very melancholy sound as of harmoniums, hymns, organ-pianos, psalteries, and the like, all playing different airs, in a kind most hateful to the Muses.

Letters to Dead Authors 2006

One played a tabla, a linked treble and bass drum, and the other two were playing harmoniums, accordion-like keyboards.

Meditation as Medicine M.D. Dharma Singh Khalsa 2001

One played a tabla, a linked treble and bass drum, and the other two were playing harmoniums, accordion-like keyboards.

Meditation as Medicine M.D. Dharma Singh Khalsa 2001

Many other sisters in the Lord were, called on to help -- some to play the harmoniums provided in each room, and lead the singing in varied languages -- others in writing letters for those who could not use a pen themselves, and whose hearts were softened by kindness shown in this way -- others in filling, bags with books and tracts.

God's Answers A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada Clara M. S. Lowe

If I go alone I shall be drawn in among the flutes and harmoniums.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914 Various