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Jan Vos, founder and main curator of the museum playing a 1910 Hoerbuegel organ originating from Germany and donated by Dutch owners.
ABHAY SINGH & FRIENDS
Abhay Singh & Friends was formed in Autumn 2011 when, while attending grad school to study theology after a bad breakup, Abhay Singh rounded up musicians to perform songs that allegorically related the Bible to his experiences of heartbreak and finding new love. The band performs Roots Rock and Doo-Wop music influenced by Bruce Springsteen, Roy Orbison, and Leonard Cohen. Inspired by the song structures and emotional candidness of contemporary pop music and club music, over the holidays Abhay and his musician friends recorded an 8-song album of folk, klezmer, and doo-wop music, prominently featuring harmonium, an instrument popular in the music of the Indian subcontinent.
Harmonium Songs
Full-band Rock Songs
JAMES PANTHER
Hailing from Pennington, New Jersey, James Panther has been unwaveringly dedicated to making music since 11 years old when he joined the American Boychoir in 1996. Fast forward to now-- Panther is a piano player, pop/rock/soul singer, songwriter, and producer with a dynamic, haunting and powerful voice. His songs and performances are both intimate and high energy: uncompromisingly honest accounts of personal experience and hooky self-empowerment anthems with driving beats and unforgettable pop melodies.
After years of classical/choral training and various leading roles in musical theatre productions, Panther went to study songwriting at Boston's Berklee College of Music, and made 2 albums under the name Jamie Treadwell, playing extensively in Boston and Cambridge. Deeply driven to create a unique sound and find his authentic voice, Panther left Berklee to develop artistically in radical queer artistic communities in New York, San Francisco, and Portland, OR. In addition to performing in major cities, Panther spent months at a time creatively developing in rural radical queer sanctuaries and gatherings in the pacific northwest and Tennessee, as well as in spiritual ceremonies of Native American tradition. Panther's debut EP weaves together his urban sensibility and his extensive experience as a rurally dwelling gypsy traveller and lover of nature and progressive community.
He proudly and passionately stands for truth, self-respect, self-empowerment, the health and wellness of queer communities, and creating a safer world for young queer kids to grow up.
Joe McCarthy is a singer-songwriter of brooklyn bands Senators, Abhay Singh & Friends, Doubting Thomas Cruise Control, and Youth and the Drug Explosion. He has been playing music in New York City for 7 years. Tonight he will be playing original songs on guitar and piano without accompaniment. [Check out his music.]
Tere Bina (Guru) - Sargam, Harmonium And Flute Notes
SCALE OF THE FLUTE IS A BASS/MIDDLE
Dum dara dum dara mast mast daraa
G..G.R..G..G.R..G..G.G..G..G.R.
Dum dara dum dara mast mast daraa
P..G.R.R..R.S.R..R.R..G.R.S.d.
Dum dara dum dumm
S..S.S.R..G..
Oh hum dum bin tere kyaa jeenaa
S.R..G..P..G.R.S..S..S..
Dum dara dum dara mast mast daraa
G..G.R..G..G.R..G..G.G..G..G.R.
Dum dara dum dara mast mast daraa
P..G.R.R..R.S.R..R.R..G.R.S.d.
Dum dara dum dumm
S..S.S.R..G..
Oh hum dum bin tere kyaa jeenaa
S.R..G..P..G.R.S..S..S..
Tere bina beswaadii
P.P.P..D..P.m.m.P.
Beswaadi ratiyaann
m.G.R..G..R.S.S.
Oh sajnaa
S.S.R..R.G..
Tere bina beswaadii
P.P.P..D..P.m.m.P.
Beswaadi ratiyaann
m.G.R..G..R.S.S.
Oh sajna hooo
S.S.R..R.G...m.G.R.m.
Rookhi re oh rookhi ree
m.m..m.m..m..P..G.R.G.R..
Kaatore kaate katenaa
m.m..m.m..m..P..G.R.S..S.R.R.G..
Tere bina beswaadii
P.P.P..D..P.m.m.P.
Beswaadi ratiyaann
m.G.R..G..R.S.S.
Oh sajnaa
S.S.R..R.G...
Tere bina beswaadii
P.P.P..D..P.m.m.P.
Beswaadi ratiyaann
m.G.R..G..R.S.S.
Oh sajna hoo
S.S.R..R.G...m.G.R.
Dum dara dum dara mast mast daraa
G..G.R..G..G.R..G..G.G..G..G.R.
Dum dara dum dara mast mast daraa
P..G.R.R..R.S.R..R.R..G.R.S.d.
Dum dara dum dumm
S..S.S.R..G..
Oh hum dum bin tere kyaa jeenaa
S.R..G..P..G.R.S..S..S..
Dum dara dum dara mast mast daraa
G..G.R..G..G.R..G..G.G..G..G.R.
Dum dara dum dara mast mast daraa
P..G.R.R..R.S.R..R.R..G.R.S.d.
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6th March 2016 at the Old Rose & Crown, London E17.
Walthamstow Folk Club, www.walthamstowfolk.co.uk/.
Country: Britain. Style: Traditional English Folk.
Lineup: Pete Coe (v/melodeon/bouzouki/banjo/bansitar), Alice Jones (v/harmonium/p/clarinet/whistles/foot percussion).
Pete Coe and Alice Jones both live in Ripponden in West Yorkshire (though Coe is originally from Cheshire). Since 2014 the two have come together to present a show "The Search for Five Finger Frank", consisting of English folk songs collected by Frank Kidson from Leeds. Mainly in the 1880s and 90s, before other better known collectors. I took photos of Coe in 2014 at the Musical Traditions Club, see: www.flickr.com/photos/kmlivemusic/sets/72157641847911043/.
More information: fivefingerfrank.co.uk/, www.backshift.demon.co.uk/, alicejonesmusic.com/.
HARMONIUM
In 1854, Henry Mason and Emmons Hamlin founded the Mason & Hamlin Company in Boston, Massachusetts. Henry Mason came from a musical family. His father was the famous composer and educator Lowell Mason, a visionary who was the first to bring music into the public schools of America. As a publisher of hymns, he became known as the “father of American church music.” Emmons Hamlin was not a musician, but a brilliant mechanic and inventor. While working at the melodeon factory of George A. Prince in Buffalo, New York, Hamlin invented a way to voice organ reeds, so that they could imitate the sound of a clarinet, violin or other musical instruments.
Thus, having developed his discovery to perfection, he and Henry Mason formed their own company for the purpose of manufacturing a new musical instrument that they called the “organ harmonium.”
The beginning combination of limited production and capital but great attention to detail paid off, and the first instruments proved to be extremely successful. Thus the partners were well on their way to becoming major players in the field.
From the organ harmonium, the company graduated to the American Cabinet Organ, a product that would earn Mason & Hamlin first prize at the Paris Exhibition of 1867. The fact that a small American company won the top prize over their much larger, more established European competitors astounded the music world. The fact that they continued to win year after year was even more astounding. It wasn’t long before Mason & Hamlin had established a worldwide reputation for excellence. Many European firms then started to copy the Mason and Hamlin way of making such reed Organs.
Based on the success of the Mason & Hamlin “organ harmonium” at the Parisian Exhibition, many European builders of reed Organs, as well as totally new firms appearing on the scene, started to build the American type of suction reed organ, as it had become the main competitor to the wind pressurized harmonium. The Europeans did not adopt the American name “reed organ” but kept the simple name of “harmonium.”
The first Indian harmonium was apparently built by Dwarkin, who established a workshop in 1875.
The most widely-known and used free-reed aerophone instrument in India is the harmonium and had been imported from the West. No foreign instrument, however, has caused such a commotion as the harmonium and none is used so extensively, be it in classical, light, film or folk music. It is probably the most commonly used instrument in northern India.
The harmonium was brought to India either by Western traders or by religious missionaries and musicians in the late nineteenth century. It was first introduced and included within Indian music compositions in the west Bengal area, and from there it spread all over the country.
The harmonium of India is not the heavy and large pedaled instrument of Europe, but has been reduced to a small portable box, which is approximately two feet by one foot and about nine to ten inches high, the back of which opens to act as the bellows. On the top is a keyboard like that of a piano, but with a much smaller range, usually of about three octaves. It is played by the right hand, while the left works the bellows.
The Indian harmonium is a keyboard instrument on which twelve semitones of the tempered scale are fixed in all the three octaves: mandra, madhya and tara. On these keyboard instruments, only straight notes can be played with grace notes and quarter-tones not being possible. There is also no possibility of a slur, meend, or gamaka being played on the harmonium, which creates the main essence of Hindustani music. This manner of performance is essential to maintain the spirit of Hindustani ragadari system. Yet, it is possible to preserve the continuity of the music to some extent by a skillful handling of the bellows and finger pressure on the keys. When the harmonium is paired with the human voice or the sarangi's sound, the coupling creates the unique and exquisite Hindustani music.
Although the Indian scale of music of twelve semitones is nearly the same as that in Western music, there are certain vital and perceptible differences between the two. The Indian concept of "swara" does not relate it to a specific pitch point, but to a pitch-range with variegated possibilities of shades and nuances. No keyboard instrument can respond to this concept of "swara."
For these reasons, the harmonium was banned in music broadcasts over the National network from March 1, 1940. Some purists like Ameer Khan, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Begum Akhtar, etc., went on to even favor the harmonium as an accompaniment as against the sarangi, because they found its notes were unsagging and constant. Its uncanny popularity, therefore, led the government to seriously review the question of its use in broadcasts of classical and light music, and ultimately in October 1970, after an exile of over three decades, the government had to issue a directive partially removing the ban on the harmonium in the broadcasts of classical and light classical music on the national network. Though the harmonium is not used as much in the current "Carnatic" music system, its current version is capable of providing a whole range of tonal excellence which is rare in other instruments. A top quality harmonium has two, three and even four sets of reeds. The instrument covers three to four "octaves," encompassing sub-bass, bass, medium and high. The instrument is larger and has built-in devices to filter the air through two compartments. The merit of this arrangement is that when the air is blown into it, it does not strike the reeds aggressively. From the airtight compartments, the wind emerges softly through the reeds when a key is pressed. In earlier days, the instrument was equipped with only a single piece reed board. This made the sound strident and harsh. Present-day harmoniums have three reed boards joined together with the provision for air-release in a zigzag fashion, ensuring softness of tone and melody.
Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan (Urdu: فرخ فتح علی خان) (December 25, 1952 – September 9, 2003) was a player of the harmonium in Qawwali and also was a member of a well-known family of Qawwali musicians. He was the younger brother of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the son of Fateh Ali Khan, the nephew of Mubarak Ali Khan, and the father of Rahat Fateh Ali Khan,
Tulsidas Borkar (born 18 November 1934, in Borim, Goa) is an Indian musician, known for playing harmonium solo and his syle of accompanying in Hindustani rag sangeet and allied forms .The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 2016.
Mehmood Dhaulpuri is an Indian musician of Hindustani music, known as a leading exponent of Harmonium, an Indian variant of the Pump organ. He was an accompanist to renowned Hindustani vocalists such as Parveen Sultana, Bhimsen Joshi, Jasraj, Girija Devi, Kishori Amonkar and Ustad Ghulam Sadiq Khan. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2006, for his contributions to Music,making him the first harmonium player to receive the award.
Born in Florence, Italy and raised in Oxford, England, Olivia Chaney has gained quite a bit of notoriety in a short amount of time for her voice, her musicianship, and her deep knowledge of a wide variety of styles and genres, particularly folk music from the British Isles. The one and only Robert Plant personally asked her to open his run of shows in NYC last year, and I'm eagerly awaiting her debut CD for Nonesuch records.
Guru Brahma Guru Vishnu - Sargam, Harmonium And Flute Notes
Gurur brahma
G..G...R..G...G...
Gurur vishnu
R..R...n..R...R...
Gurur devo
n..R...n..R...R..
Maheshwaraha
G..R...S..S..S...
Guru saakshaat
G..P...G..P...P...
Parabrahma
P..D...D..P...G..
Tasmai sri
R...R...R...
Gurave namaha
G..P..G...R..S..S...
Gurur brahma
G..G...R..G...G...
Gurur vishnu
R..R...n..R...R...
Gurur devo
n..R...n..R...R..
Maheshwaraha
G..R...S..S..S...
Guru saakshaat
G..P...G..P...P...
Parabrahma
P..D...D..P...G..
Tasmai sri
R...R...R...
Gurave namaha
G..P..G...R..S..S...
- Karpur Gauram Karunavtaram – Sargam, Harmonium And Flute Notes
- Shiv Tandav Stotram – Sargam, Harmonium And Flute Notes
- Gayatri Mantra – Sargam, Harmonium And Flute Notes
- Achyutam Keshavam – Sargam, Harmonium And Flute Notes
- Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram – Sargam, Harmonium And Flute Notes
Where
DO - SA - S RE - RE - RMI - GA - GFA - MA - MSO - PA - PLA - DHA - DTI - NI - NLOW OCTAVEPA - pDHA - dNI - nSHUDH MA - m TIWAR MA - MHIGH OCTAVESA - S'RE - R'GA - G'MA - M' m'PA - P'KOMAL SWARDHA - D(k)NI - N(k)RE - R(k)GA - G(k)
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27th January 2013 at St Andrew’s in the Square, Glasgow (with Nils Økland at Hardanger Fiddle Journeys gig).
The Harmonium was first developed in France in the middle of the 19th century. It has a set of free reads, a keyboard and bellows. The bellows can be operated in two ways, either by sunction from below the instrument using foot pedals or by pressure from the back using the left hand.
This instrument is of the foor pedal variety, also known as a Reed Organ (or Pump or Parlour Organ). Many of these were made in the 19th century for small churches and some homes.
Harmoniums/Reed Organs are assigned the number 412.132 in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification of musical instruments ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornbostel-Sachs ), indicating:
4 = Aerophones. Sound is primarily produced by vibrating air. The instrument itself does not vibrate, and there are no vibrating strings or membranes.
41 = Free Aerophones. The vibrating air is not contained within the instrument.
412 = Interruptive Free Aerophones. The air-stream is interrupted periodically.
412.1 = Idiophonic Interruptive Aerophones or Reeds. The air-stream is directed against a lamella, setting it in periodic vibration to interrupt the stream intermittently.
412.13 = Free Reed Instruments. Instrument features a reed which vibrates within a closely fitting slot.
412.132 = Sets of Free Reads.
If you couldn't get an organ proper for your church, the next best thing was an Harmonium like this lovely old puffer which resides in All Saints Crostwight. I confess I did have a little tootle on the ivories and even though I am not even a piano player I could make it make some lovely sounds. They are perhaps difficult instruments to play as you have to pedal to keep the bellows inflated, rather like bagpipes, and this made them unpopular with 'serious' musicians who didn't want to be doing with all that manual labour.
photo by www.readymedia.com & www.klangboot.de
KINO KROKODIL - FILME AUS RUSSLAND UND OSTEUROPA
Крокодил - Кинотеатр русских фильмов
Greifenhagener Strasse 32
10437 Berlin
Heute lief folgendes:
Dritte Kleinbürgerstraße / Liebe zu dritt
SU Sowkino 1927, 74 min
an unserer neuen „Kinoorgel“, einem besonders großen Harmonium mit spielbaren Pedal, live begleitet von Jürgen Kurz www.film-ist-kultur.de/personen/kurz/kurz.shtml
SCALE OF THE FLUTE IS E BASS/MIDDLE
Naa maaregii deewangii merii
S..D..P..G..D..P..G..R..R..G..
Naa maaregii awaargi merii
S..D..P..G..D..P..G..R..S..S..R..
Kee maaregii zyadaa mujhee maut see
R..R..G..R..S..S..d..d.S.R..P..P..G..
Naraazgii teri
R..R..G..R..S..S..
Kyun itnaa huaa haii tuu khafaa
S..D..P..G..D..P..G..R..R..G..
Haii zidd kis baat kii teri
S..D..P..G..D..P..G..R..S..S..R..
Kee maaregi zyadaa mujhee maut see
R..R..G..R..S..S..d..d.S.R..P..P..G..
Naraazgii teri
R..R..G..R..S..S..
Jaan nisaar haii jaan nisaarr
S'..N..D..N..N..R'..N..D..P..
Teree pyaar pee meree yaarr
S'..N..D..N..N..R'..N..D..P..
Jaan nisaar haii
D..P.G.R...G..P..
Hmmm mmm mmmm
m..G..m.G..R..S..S..
Also Read This :-
Ajeeb Dastan (Lata Mangeshkar) – Sargam And Flute Notes
Baarish (Stebin Ben, Payal Dev) – Sargam And Flute Notes
Dil Ko Maine Di Kasam (Arijit Singh) – Sargam And Flute Notes
Taare Ginn (Dil Bechara) – Sargam And Flute Notes
Ek Tarfa (Darshan Raval) – Sargam And Flute Notes
Where
DO - SA - S RE - RE - RMI - GA - GFA - MA - MSO - PA - PLA - DHA - DTI - NI - NLOW OCTAVEPA - pDHA - dNI - nSHUDH MA - m TIWAR MA - MHIGH OCTAVESA - S'RE - R'GA - G'MA - M' m'PA - P'KOMAL SWARDHA - D(k)NI - N(k)RE - R(k)GA - G(k) notationsworld.com/jaan-nisaar-sargam-and-flute-notes-ked...
i blame uncle raj. completely.
with all his talk of "jhora shefali", he got me re-hooked to rabindra sangeet, and now nothing would do for me but to rush out and bring home a synthesizer.
it doesn't help that i am touching the keys after 10 years, and have had only a nodding acquaintance with them at best in the past.
and i am reading the music in bengali - a language i can only semi-read, from a borrowed song book that threatens to tear apart any minute now.
common civic sense compelled me to switch to my headphones.
and in the entire song book, there was only one song that i also had in my ipod - so am stopping every 5 minutes to listen to the real song.
its true. i suck!
(i wonder if this comes under baby-torture? my granny says it does!)
27th January 2013 at St Andrew’s in the Square, Glasgow.
Celtic Connections Festival, www.celticconnections.com/.
Country: Norway. Style: Traditional / Classical / Improv.
Lineup: Nils Økland (hardanger fiddle), Sigbjørn Apeland (harmonium).
Nils Økland is from Haugesund in Rogaland in south western Norway. He has collaborated with several Jazz musicans including Christian Wallumrød and Karl Seglem (I saw them and Håkon Høgemo as part of Vek at the Spitz in 2006). He has played with Sigbjørn Apeland for many years (I saw them in a trio with percussionist Håkon Stene in London in 2008 on a double bill with Catriona McKay & Chris Stout). I also saw Sigbjørn Apeland with Sigrid Moldestad at Kings Place in 2010.
Kaun Tujhe (Easy Version) - Sargam, Harmonium And Flute Notes
SCALE OF THE FLUTE IS F BASS/MIDDLE
Tuu aata hai seena mai
G..m..G..R..S..n..n..S..S..R..R..
Jab jab saanse bharti huu
R..R..G..R..S..n..d..d..n..n..S..S..
Tere dil ki galiyon see
G..m..G..R..S..n..n..S..S..R..R..
Main har roz guzarti huu
R..G..R..S..n..S..n..d..d..d..
Hawa kee jaise chalta hai tuu
G..G..m..G..R..S..n..n..S..S..R..R..p..
Main ret jaisi udti huu
R..G..R..S..n..d..d..n..n..S..S..
Kayun tujhe yun pyaar karegaa
D..G..G..G..R..S..n..S..S..S..R..R..p..
Jaisee main karti hoon
R..G..R..S..n..S..n..d..d..d..
Hoo Hoo Hoo....
d..n..S..R..G..m..G..R..R...S..n..d..p..
Hoo Hoo Hoo....
p..d..n..S..R..G..n..S..d..
Hoo Hoo Hoo....
d..n..S..R..G..m..G..R..R...S..n..d..p..
Hoo Hoo Hoo....
p..d..n..S..R..G..n..S..d..
Music:-
S..R..G... D..N.D.P..
S..R..G... S'..R'.S'.N..
S..R..G... D..N.D.P..
S..R..G... S'..R'.S'.N..
Meri nazar kaa safar
d..G..R..G..S..n..S..
Tujhpe hii aake rukee
d..G..R..G..S..n..R..
Kehne koo baaki hai kyaa
d..G..R..G..S..n..S...R.S.n..
Kehna thaa jo keh chukee
d..G..R..G..S..n..R..
Meri nigaahein haii
G..m..S'..N..D..G..
Teri nigahon pee
R..G..D..P..m..S..
Tujhe khabar kya bekhabarr
S..R..m..G..R..S..S.R.S.R.S.n...
Main tujhse hii chhup chhup kee
G..m..G..R..S..n..n..S..S..R..R..
Teri aakhein padhti hoonn
R..R..G..R..S..n..d..d..n..n..S..S..
Kayun tujhe yun pyaar karegaa
D..G..G..G..R..S..n..S..S..S..R..R..p..
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The Stokes Family Band played a strange concoction of instruments; first of all there was my mother on a little harmonium which had to be pedalled, next my brother on the clarinet, he was 15 at the time and 18-year-old me on the acoustic guitar. It was the percussion department that made up the bizarre element though as my 12-year-old sister played a bass drum that I had made from a cardboard cylindrical packing case with a tractor tyre inner tube stretched over the top which created a dull thuddy boom when hit with a washing-up mop covered in felt, and my father played the maracas, well, washing up liquid bottles filled with peas actually.
Now I know you're all itching to hear this, but you'll have to read all about it first: opobs.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/we-broke-the-mould/