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Bhaktapur - Harmonium Player
A very kind local we met brought us to a small temple complex, tucked well away from the crowds of central Bhaktapur. A few Nepalis were gathered in the temple rectory singing devotionals, accompanied by a half-broken tabla and this harmonium player.
If you've never heard a harmonium, well...it sounds like a cat's caterwauling passed through a vocoder. Second only to the accordion in its approximation of nails running down a chalkboard. But somehow, when it's accompanied by voices, percussion, and other instruments, it sounds perfectly okay.
Bhaktapur - Harmonium Player
A very kind local we met brought us to a small temple complex, tucked well away from the crowds of central Bhaktapur. A few Nepalis were gathered in the temple rectory singing devotionals, accompanied by a half-broken tabla and this harmonium player.
If you've never heard a harmonium, well...it sounds like a cat's caterwauling passed through a vocoder. Second only to the accordion in its approximation of nails running down a chalkboard. But somehow, when it's accompanied by voices, percussion, and other instruments, it sounds perfectly okay.