Definition of "harmonium" []

• An organlike keyboard instrument that produces tones with free metal reeds actuated by air forced from a bellows. (noun)

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• "In later life when he had attained to wealth and prosperity the violin and the harmonium were a constant source of solace during long winter evenings in Greenwich and Peckham."
• "The harmonium on which Mr. Povey used occasionally to play was still behind the door; and on the harmonium was the tea-caddy of which"
• "The chanting was in Sanskrit and Hindu, and besides the fact that the woman playing the harmonium was a regal blonde from California, we could have easily been in Varanasi."