harmonium
/hɑːˈməʊnɪəm
/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....
- 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.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from French, from Latin harmonia (see harmony) or Greek harmonios 'harmonious'.
Rhymes
- greenfly
- green food
- green-friendly
- green frog
- green fuel
- Green function
- greengage
- green gill
- green-gilled
- green ginger
- green gland
- green glass
- Green Goddess
- green gold
- green goods
- green-goods man
- green goose
- green gown
- green gram
- greengrocer
- greengroceress
- greengrocer's apostrophe
- greengrocers' apostrophe
- greengrocery
- Greenham