Have you ever wondered why every harmonium sounds different in terms of the tonal quality. The situation becomes worse when the same key e.g. Black 1 - is at different pitches in 2 harmoniums. In this situation one cannot play both harmoniums together in the same program.
Have you ever put on a Hindustani classical piece on your music system, and then tried to accompany on your harmonium - and then found to your dismay that your harmonium pitch is at a completely different pitch from that of the vocalist, and you could not therefore play it?
And then of course you would have heard of the controversy around tuning - should harmoniums be tuned to 440 hz which is the Western Classical standard? Do these harmoniums sound better than harmoniums tuned at a different pitch e.g. at 430 Hz?
This was the dilemma I faced when I acquired my new custom made Triple Reed Harmonium described in my post here. Here is a short video explaining the concept behind tuning harmoniums - hopefully it would help remove some of the myths around harmonium tuning.
Have you ever put on a Hindustani classical piece on your music system, and then tried to accompany on your harmonium - and then found to your dismay that your harmonium pitch is at a completely different pitch from that of the vocalist, and you could not therefore play it?
And then of course you would have heard of the controversy around tuning - should harmoniums be tuned to 440 hz which is the Western Classical standard? Do these harmoniums sound better than harmoniums tuned at a different pitch e.g. at 430 Hz?
This was the dilemma I faced when I acquired my new custom made Triple Reed Harmonium described in my post here. Here is a short video explaining the concept behind tuning harmoniums - hopefully it would help remove some of the myths around harmonium tuning.
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